United States Post Office (Wadesboro, North Carolina)

US Post Office

U.S. Post Office, March 2007
Location 105-111 Martin St., Wadesboro, North Carolina
Coordinates 34°58′37″N 80°4′36″W / 34.97694°N 80.07667°W / 34.97694; -80.07667Coordinates: 34°58′37″N 80°4′36″W / 34.97694°N 80.07667°W / 34.97694; -80.07667
Area less than one acre
Built 1932 (1932)-1933
Architect Supervising Architect's Office
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Classical Revival
NRHP Reference # 87001161[1]
Added to NRHP July 6, 1987

United States Post Office is a historic post office building located at Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina. It was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect and built in 1932-1933. It is a two-story rectangular building of cream brick with limestone trim in a Classical / Colonial Revival style. Five central bays of the front facade make up a slightly projecting frontispiece defined by an arcade of six colossal stone pilasters with Greek corinthian order capitals.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1] It is located in the Wadesboro Downtown Historic District.

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. David R. Black (August 1986). "United States Post Office" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.


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