{"nrhp_refnum":"77000472","name":"U.S. Post Office and Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 N. 8th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Adams County","state":"IL","lat":39.933700154000064,"lon":-91.40283430799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-12-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A federal post office and courthouse at 200 North 8th Street in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, designed in 1885 and built in 1886-1887, with limestone-faced brick walls and later enlargements.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is an early and unusual example of French Renaissance Revival style, uncommon in a part of the country remote from where that style was accepted. It was designed by Mifflin E. Bell, a Supervising Architect of the United States. The second-floor courtroom and judge's chambers are noted for very elaborate decorative woodwork.","narrative":"Quincy's post office and courthouse, at 200 North 8th Street, was designed in 1885 and built in 1886 and 1887. Its load-bearing brick walls, about two and a half feet thick in the original portion, are faced with Indiana oolitic limestone. A steep slate roof, copper gutters, wrought iron ridge work and sharply gabled dormer windows give the Hampshire Street front an animated profile above a calmer arcaded base. The building was enlarged in three stages, the last starting in 1932, and the original street doorways were later enclosed as windows. Mifflin E. Bell, who had worked on the Illinois State Capitol and practiced in Chicago, designed it. The French Renaissance Revival style, reportedly derived from Hunt's Vanderbilt House of 1879, appeared here at a very early date and far from where the style was commonly accepted. Inside, the second-floor courtroom and judge's chambers are notable for elaborate moldings, columns, door pediments, bench, clerk's desk, fireplaces and railings, many in a Queen Anne manner.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown/Mifflin E. Bell","architectural_style":"French Renaissance Revival Style derived from Hunt's Vanderbilt House in New York, New York of 1879","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked as occupied, in good condition, on its original site and altered; enlarged in three stages, the last beginning in 1932.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.200311-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/8916/28891663/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/77000472.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000472/c5e0d17c35-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000472/c5e0d17c35-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office_%26_Court_House,_Quincy,_Illinois.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office_%26_Court_House,_Quincy,_Illinois.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891663","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_and_Courthouse_(Quincy,_Illinois)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891102"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/adams-county/u-s-post-office-and-courthouse-77000472/"}