Originally built for the offices of the Ministry of Public Works, the two-story art-deco building adjacent to Casa Guipuz-coana became La Guaira’s first Post Office building in 1953. Designed by the son of Alejandro Chataing (1873-1928) -who in 1940 won the contest for the headquarters of the Colegio de Ingenieros of Caracas and was later the Minister of Public Works between 1953 and 1958-, this modern building has a lovely central space, accessed by a hallway, linked to the correspondence platform, whose windows open out onto Avenida Bolívar. The elaborate surface of the façade, with rhythmic bas-reliefs, is complemented with decorative devices like ornamental figures, granite floors, glass blocks and elaborate ironwork and blinds. It has a succession of spaces from the access, passing through the hallway up to the central space, where the structure’s geometric distribution is enriched with cylindrical and rectangular decorated columns. The façade has a severe rhythmic arrangement of the windows marked by sills, and in the center a higher vertical plane that marks the access and finishes in a triangular shape. The originally white building, constructed during the government of Eleazar López Contreras, has been misused and modified with colors that undermine its architectural value.