{"nrhp_refnum":"00000755","name":"United States Post Office-Baxley, Georgia","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"124 Tippins St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Baxley","county":"Appling County","state":"GA","lat":31.778236720000052,"lon":-82.34986173099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-07-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, rectangular Colonial Revival brick post office at 124 Tippins Street in downtown Baxley, Appling County, Georgia, built 1935-1936 by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a representative and highly intact example of the small-town post offices built across the country between 1932 and 1942 under New Deal programs. It also reflects federal efforts to improve small-town infrastructure during the New Deal era. It is significant at the local level.","narrative":"Built in 1935-1936 one block west of the Appling County Courthouse, the Baxley post office is a one-story Colonial Revival building of brick laid in English bond on a concrete foundation, with a steel frame and a flat roof behind a marble-capped parapet. Its main facade has large 12-over-12 sash windows and an entrance framed by fluted pilasters and a broken pediment inscribed \"Baxley Ga.\" Inside, an L-shaped lobby with gray marble wainscot, a large work room, a vault, and a hidden inspectors' lookout gallery follow the standardized plans used for small-town post offices. The Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury designed it under Louis A. Simon, with the J. M. Raymond Company of Jacksonville as contractor. It was listed as an intact example of New Deal-era post office design in Georgia and as a product of federal efforts to improve small-town infrastructure during the 1930s. Its significance is local.","period_of_significance":"1935-1936","architect_builder":"Simon, Louis A. (Supervising Architect); Melick, Neal A. (Supervising Engineer); J.M. Raymond Company (general contractor)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as government office; the form refers to postal operations having moved to a new facility.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.606628-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/00000755.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000755/d60e171972-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000755/d60e171972-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office,_Baxley,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office,_Baxley,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206825","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office-Baxley,_Georgia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38251960"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/appling-county/united-states-post-office-baxley-georgia-00000755/"}