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United States Post Office–Palmer Main

Field	Value
name	US Post Office–Palmer Main
image	Post Office, Palmer MA.jpg
caption	Palmer Main Post Office
location	1057 Park St., Palmer, Massachusetts
coordinates
locmapin	Massachusetts#USA
mapframe	yes
mapframe-marker	building
mapframe-zoom	12
mapframe-caption	Interactive map showing the location of the U.S. Post Office-Palmer Main
area	less than one acre
built
architect	Simon, Louis A.; Et al.
architecture	Classical Revival
added	December 12, 1985
refnum	85003336
<ref name	"nris"

| mapframe-marker = building | mapframe-zoom = 12 | mapframe-caption = Interactive map showing the location of the U.S. Post Office-Palmer Main

The US Post Office—Palmer Main is a historic post office building at 1057 Park Street in Palmer, Massachusetts. Built in 1931, it is a good local example of Classical Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Description and history

Palmer's main post office is located on the eastern outskirts of its downtown area, at the southeast corner of Park and Central Streets. It is a roughly rectangular single-story structure, with a steel frame and an exterior finished in brick and limestone. Its main entrance is centered on the long, street-facing side of the building, which is lined with large Ionic columns set in antis in a broad recess. The columns support a brick and limestone frieze, cornice, and low balustrade that encircles the truncated hip roof. The steps leading to the entrance are flanked by original Art Deco lampposts. The interior lobby area has terrazzo marble flooring and marble wainscoting, as well as original woodwork.

The post office was built in 1931, to a design by the Office of the Supervising Architect for the U.S. Treasury, then under the direction of Louis A. Simon. The building cost more than $75,000 to build, a high price for the period, and apparently bankrupted the first contractor to work on it, since it was completed by another. The building's relative grandeur is somewhat offset by its odd location in what is a mostly residential area on the fringe of the city's downtown.

References

{{NRISref. 2008a
"MACRIS inventory record for US Post Office-Palmer Main". Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
"NRHP nomination for United States Post Office-Palmer Main". National Archive.

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