{"nrhp_refnum":"87001161","name":"US Post Office","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"105--111 Martin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wadesboro","county":"Anson County","state":"NC","lat":34.977097411000045,"lon":-80.07645454899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-07-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story cream brick post office with limestone trim at the northeast corner of South Greene and Martin Streets in Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina, built in 1932-33 to designs from the Treasury Department's Supervising Architect's office.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it was Wadesboro's first tangible Federal presence and reflects the growth in Federal building after the Public Buildings Act of 1926 and the Depression-era public works of the 1930s. It is unusually large for a small-town post office. Its Classical/Colonial Revival design was deliberately made compatible with the adjacent Anson County Courthouse.","narrative":"Wadesboro's post office, at the corner of South Greene and Martin Streets, is a two-story rectangle of cream pressed brick with limestone trim, built in 1932-33 in a Classical/Colonial Revival style. Its seven-bay front has a projecting central section with six colossal stone pilasters, and inside is an L-shaped lobby with marble wainscoting, terrazzo floors and mahogany-finished woodwork. Before it opened, the town's post office had operated from rented quarters since 1828. A Federal appropriation became available after the Public Buildings Act of 1926. When local citizens saw a one-story stock plan, they objected that it could not match the 1913 courthouse across the street. The Supervising Architect's office redesigned it with two stories. William W. Sistler Construction Company built it for $59,640, and it was dedicated on November 1, 1933. It originally also housed county agents and other government offices. It is considered significant as a Depression-era Federal building and as a companion to the courthouse.","period_of_significance":"1932-1933","architect_builder":"Supervising Architect's Office","architectural_style":"Classical/Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Well maintained, little altered, and still actively serving as the Wadesboro post office.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:48.705953-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/7189/47718932/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/87001161.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001161/9edacd82eb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001161/9edacd82eb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._POST_OFFICE,_WADESBORO,_ANSON_COUNTY,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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,_WADESBORO,_ANSON_COUNTY,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718932","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Wadesboro,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18157310"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/anson-county/us-post-office-87001161/"}