{"nrhp_refnum":"03001417","name":"Jacksonville Post Office","other_names":["The Landmark"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"402 E. Rusk St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jacksonville","county":"Cherokee County","state":"TX","lat":31.963732565000043,"lon":-95.27014379399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-01-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick and limestone post office with basement at the corner of E. Rusk and Jackson streets in downtown Jacksonville, Cherokee County, Texas, completed in 1933 from Treasury Department plans under Supervising Architect James A. Wetmore.","why_significant":"It was the first federal building constructed in Cherokee County and reflects the federal public building program of the 1920s and 1930s. Its Classical Revival form with simplified Art Deco and Moderne detailing is described as the county's most significant local example of these trends. It is nominated under Criterion A for Government and Criterion C for Architecture, at the local level.","narrative":"Completed in 1933, this two-story brick and limestone building at the corner of E. Rusk and Jackson streets served as Jacksonville's post office and was the first federal building erected in Cherokee County. Before it opened, the post office had occupied four leased locations. Construction followed standardized Treasury Department plans under Supervising Architect James A. Wetmore, with P.A. Sanford of Montgomery, Alabama, as contractor. Classical proportions, fluted pilasters, steel casement windows and marble spandrels are combined with simplified detailing that reflects Art Deco and Moderne influences. A one-story east wing and an elevator shaft on the west were added in 1967, but the original exterior remains largely intact. The building shows how the federal public building program, expanded in the late 1920s and early 1930s, reached a small Texas town. After the Postal Service left in 2000, a local business owner began converting it into a restaurant and small hotel.","period_of_significance":"1933","architect_builder":"Architect = Wetmore, James A.; Builder = Sanford, P.A.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacated by the Postal Service in 2000; being rehabilitated as a restaurant on the ground floor and a small hotel upstairs, renamed The Landmark.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.613186-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/8/9715/40971508/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/03001417.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001417/7e46264a6a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001417/7e46264a6a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Michael Barera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacksonville_August_2017_12_(Landmark_Event_Center).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:Jacksonville_August_2017_12_(Landmark_Event_Center).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971508","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107321156"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/cherokee-county/jacksonville-post-office-03001417/"}