{"nrhp_refnum":"85003224","name":"US Post Office-Greenfield Main","other_names":["Greenfield Main Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"442 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greenfield","county":"Franklin County","state":"MA","lat":42.58770984600005,"lon":-72.59756691699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-12-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick post office at 442 Main Street in Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, built in 1915 as a two-story center block with one-story wings added in 1939.","why_significant":"The building was designed in 1914 under Supervising Architect Oscar Wenderoth and reflects the Beaux-Arts and Neo-Classical goals of earlier federal post office design. It achieves a dignified presence through ornament, symmetry and fine materials. It is significant locally and shows federal policy on post office construction in small towns.","narrative":"Greenfield's main post office, at 442 Main Street, began as a two-story brick building in 1915 and gained one-story wings in 1939. It sits on a granite base, with brick walls laid in English bond and arched panels holding the first-floor windows. The sculpted stone entrance, flanked by pairs of fluted pilasters and topped by a pediment with a denticulated cornice, is the dominant feature. The 1939 lobby renovation kept the original marble vestibule and light fixture, and a 1941 bronze bas-relief by Helen Sardeau is displayed inside. The building was designed in 1914 under Supervising Architect Oscar Wenderoth and follows the Beaux-Arts and Neo-Classical tastes favored by his predecessors, when small-town post offices were meant to be a community's most architecturally important building. Louis A. Simon directed the 1939 enlargement. It stands near the Leavitt-Hovey House, the county courthouse and a church, and was recognized as a locally significant example of early twentieth-century academic eclecticism.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Oscar Wenderoth, Supervising Architect (1915); Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect (1939 enlargement)","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical with French Beaux-Arts elements (early twentieth-century academic eclecticism)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in excellent condition and altered; the lobby was renovated in 1939 and the building is in government use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.33278-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/7950/63795089/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/85003224.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003224/e8b6e92162-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003224/e8b6e92162-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GreenfieldMA_PostOffice.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</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:GreenfieldMA_PostOffice.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795089","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office%E2%80%93Greenfield_Main","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891141"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/franklin-county/us-post-office-greenfield-main-85003224/"}