{"nrhp_refnum":"83001873","name":"U.S. Post Office","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"301 Hay St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.053478504000054,"lon":-78.88114599099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, five-bay brick former post office at 301 Hay Street in Fayetteville, North Carolina, built between 1909 and 1911 and extended to the rear in 1935.","why_significant":"It is a local example of Neo-Classical Revival public architecture from the early twentieth century, and the first of three such buildings in downtown Fayetteville. Its construction is unusually well documented by a daily diary and monthly photographs. It is also one of the few pre-1912 post offices in North Carolina still in public use.","narrative":"Built between 1909 and 1911 at the corner of Hay and Maxwell streets, Fayetteville's former main post office is a one-story, five-bay brick building in the Neo-Classical Revival style. A central entrance with a double door, transom and ornamented surround, along with quoins, dentil and modillion cornice rows and a roofline balustrade, gives the front its character. The lot was transferred to the federal government in 1907 by the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry. A daily construction diary and monthly photographs survive and record close supervision, rejected materials and weather delays. The post office opened in April 1911 and was extended to the rear in 1935 as the city grew. After a new federal building opened in the mid-1960s, the Hay Street building became the Frances Brooks Stein Branch of the Cumberland County Library System in 1970. It is considered the first of three Neo-Classical Revival buildings downtown and one of few pre-1912 North Carolina post offices still serving the public.","period_of_significance":"1909-1911","architect_builder":"Architect/builder unknown; the 1935 addition was built by Upchurch Construction Company of Atlanta, Georgia, with C.W. Stone, Superintendent of Architecture, and Evan A. Lyon, Construction Engineer","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in public use as the Frances Brooks Stein Branch of the Cumberland County Library System since 1970.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.251048-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/7175/47717561/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83001873.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001873/538d609c20-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001873/538d609c20-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Apc106","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U_S_Post_Office_(6).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Apc106</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:U_S_Post_Office_(6).JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"99000779","name":"Fayetteville Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/fayetteville-downtown-historic-district-99000779/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717561","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Fayetteville,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18217560"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/u-s-post-office-83001873/"}