{"nrhp_refnum":"87001767","name":"US Post Office-Attleboro Main","other_names":["Attleboro Main Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"75 Park St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Attleboro","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.944071509000025,"lon":-71.28118174899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-10-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Neo-Classical post office building at 75 Park Street, at Park and Union Streets in Attleboro, Massachusetts, built in 1916 for $85,000 and clad in Indiana limestone.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a well-preserved example of early twentieth-century Federal design and one of the city's outstanding classical buildings. It is also tied to Attleboro's rapid growth in the early twentieth century, which created demand for a larger post office. It retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship.","narrative":"Built in 1916 at a cost of $85,000, the Attleboro Main Post Office at 75 Park Street is a limestone building of formal Neo-Classical design. Its projecting ten-column Roman portico with Tuscan columns rises above the one-story commercial buildings nearby. The exterior is Indiana limestone, apart from the granite entrance steps, and the cornice carries egg-and-dart moldings and dentils. Inside, the lobby has marble wainscoting, diagonal marble flooring and an elaborate plaster ceiling, though the lockboxes and service windows have been relocated. Designed under Acting Supervising Architect James A. Wetmore, with Louis A. Simon in charge, it echoes James Knox Taylor's monumental classical federal buildings. The post office was sized for a town that had outgrown a series of rented spaces, from a tavern to the Bates Opera House, as industry and rail service expanded. It is described as a well-preserved example of early twentieth-century federal design and an essential element of Attleboro's cityscape.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"James A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect; King Lumber Co., Contractor","architectural_style":"Neo-Classic (Neo-Classical / American Revival)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as the Attleboro main post office; the lobby has been modified, with lockboxes and window stations relocated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.936779-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/7944/63794404/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/87001767.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001767/26890efd41-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001767/26890efd41-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Attleboro,_MA,_post_office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Old_Attleboro,_MA,_post_office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794404","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Attleboro_Post_Office","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7083407"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/us-post-office-attleboro-main-87001767/"}