{"nrhp_refnum":"76001384","name":"East Liverpool Post Office","other_names":["East Liverpool Pottery Museum"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5th and Broadway Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"East Liverpool","county":"Columbiana County","state":"OH","lat":40.618267039000045,"lon":-80.57703447799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-story stone post office building at the southeast corner of Fifth and Broadway Streets in East Liverpool, Columbiana County, Ohio, completed in 1909 and later converted to a pottery museum.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a good example of Beaux Arts Classicism adapted for a local public building. It also notes its new role housing a museum honoring the area's ceramic industry, which had become a major center in Ohio by 1925.","narrative":"Built of smooth stone block, this one-story post office at Fifth and Broadway in East Liverpool shows Beaux Arts Classical design adapted for a small-town public building. The federal government bought the lot in 1908 for $30,000 and appropriated $150,000 for the site and building, which was finished and occupied in 1909. The symmetrical design centers on a rounded corner entrance reached by curved stone steps and topped with a bracketed segmental pediment. Large round-arched windows, carved garlands, cartouches, a dentiled cornice and a balustraded parapet provide decoration. Inside are vaulted ceilings and a terrazzo floor. A square stone entry was added on the south side in the 1940s. The Ohio Historical Society bought the building in 1971 to house a pottery museum. That use reflects the region's clay deposits and its ceramic industry, which had 285 kilns and 7,000 workers by 1925.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Beaux Arts Classicism","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent or good condition and being adapted for use as the Ohio Historical Society's East Liverpool Pottery Museum; the exterior was to remain unaltered.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.127054-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001384.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001384/397ce9ff0b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001384/397ce9ff0b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JeffHendrickson (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1MOC-exterior.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JeffHendrickson (talk)</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:1MOC-exterior.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"01000591","name":"East Liverpool Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/east-liverpool-downtown-historic-district-01000591/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987196","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Ceramics_(East_Liverpool,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14714269"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/columbiana-county/east-liverpool-post-office-76001384/"}