{"nrhp_refnum":"00000188","name":"Arlington Post Office","other_names":["Old Post Office","H-8, #201"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 W. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Arlington","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.73637419900007,"lon":-97.10854493499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-03-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Art"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick Colonial Revival post office at 200 West Main Street in Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas, completed in 1939 to a standard federal plan by the Federal Works Agency.","why_significant":"It is a good representative example of the Colonial Revival post offices built during the Depression and reflects the standard design of Treasury Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon. It also holds Otis Dozier's 1941 mural \"Gathering Pecans,\" a good example of the Treasury Department's post office mural program and an important work by a regional artist.","narrative":"Completed in 1939 at 200 West Main Street, Arlington's first permanent post office is a one-story brick building with a basement, a symmetrical five-bay facade, a simplified cast concrete entablature, and a hipped tile roof topped with an octagonal cupola. The Federal Works Agency built it from a standard plan by Treasury Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon, using bricks from Malakoff, Texas. Above the central entry sits an American eagle figure, and the interior has marble wainscoting and a terrazzo floor. The lobby also holds Otis Dozier's 1941 oil mural \"Gathering Pecans,\" showing a family harvesting pecans, one of Arlington's major industries during the Depression. The building was recognized locally for architecture, as a representative of the Colonial Revival style used for hundreds of small-town post offices, and for art, as a good example of the Treasury's public arts program. It served as the post office until 1964 and now houses school district offices. Alterations have been modest.","period_of_significance":"1939-1950","architect_builder":"Federal Works Agency, Public Building Administration (standard plan designed by Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury Department)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Post office use ended in 1964 when a larger facility replaced it; deeded to the Arlington Independent School District in 1965, it currently houses school district offices (tax office). Few alterations, and it retains most of its integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.994992-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/9734/40973435/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/00000188.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000188/fce6edb0f1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000188/fce6edb0f1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Michael Barera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arlington_April_2019_22_(Worthington_National_Bank_-_Arlington_Post_Office).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Barera</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arlington_April_2019_22_(Worthington_National_Bank_-_Arlington_Post_Office).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973435","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107319629"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/arlington-post-office-00000188/"}