Former United States Post Office (Smithfield, North Carolina)

	Former US Post Office
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Front of the post office
Location	405 E. Market St., Smithfield, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°30′37″N 78°20′40″W / 35.51028°N 78.34444°W
Area	0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built	1936
Architect	U.S. Treasury
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	93000315
Added to NRHP	April 22, 1993

The former US Post Office is a historic post office building located at Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina. It was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect and built in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration. It is a two-story, five-bay, rectangular brick building in the Colonial Revival style. It consists of three distinct sections: the two-story front block; a one-story rectangular center block; and a two-level rear block. The front facade features fluted Ionic order pilasters rising to a frieze supporting a broken pediment. The building housed federal government offices until 1990. The building was renovated in 1991 to house law offices.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Davyd Foard Hood (December 1992). "US Post Office, Former" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-01-01.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpinv-2] Davyd Foard Hood (December 1992). "US Post Office, Former" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-01-01.

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