{"nrhp_refnum":"86003433","name":"US Post Office-Whitinsville Main","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"58 Church St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Northbridge","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.11082920300004,"lon":-71.66269581599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-10-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, brick-faced post office with a full basement at 58 Church Street in Whitinsville, a village of Northbridge, Massachusetts. It was designed in 1937 and built in 1938 in the Colonial Revival style.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its association with Depression-era federal efforts to relieve unemployment and stimulate the economy through rapid construction of government buildings. It is also valued as a locally distinctive example of Colonial Revival design by the Office of the Supervising Architect. It retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship, and is considered significant despite being less than fifty years old.","narrative":"Standing at the eastern gateway to the village center of Whitinsville, in Northbridge, Massachusetts, this post office at 58 Church Street was designed in 1937 by the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon and completed in 1938. Blauner Construction Company built it for just under $50,000, hiring many local subcontractors and workers during the Depression. The one-story brick building has a hipped slate roof topped by an octagonal cupola and an oversized cast stone entrance with four pilasters, a bolder treatment than the Art Deco or Moderne styles of nearby post offices. Inside, the lobby keeps its terrazzo floors, marble edging and birch trim. A 1939 bas-relief sculpture titled Blacksmith Shop by Milton Horn, funded through the Section of Fine Arts, decorates the lobby. The building is valued for its link to federal work-relief construction and for its Colonial Revival design beside Memorial Park and the Whitinsville Historic District.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect; Blauner Construction Co.","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as the post office; the lobby is described as largely unaltered and the landscaping as meticulously maintained.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.72342-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/7971/63797168/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/86003433.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003433/2aef3640ca-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003433/2aef3640ca-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post_Office,_Whitinsville_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</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:Post_Office,_Whitinsville_MA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"83000613","name":"Whitinsville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/whitinsville-historic-district-83000613/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797168","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office%E2%80%93Whitinsville_Main","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891180"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/us-post-office-whitinsville-main-86003433/"}