{"nrhp_refnum":"92001129","name":"Cassville Post Office","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1813 Cassville Rd. (Old Dixie Hwy.)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cassville","county":"Bartow County","state":"GA","lat":34.24967662900008,"lon":-84.85283801199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-08-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture","Communications"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-story frame building at 1813 Cassville Road in Cassville, Bartow County, Georgia, built about 1889 as a combined post office and home for the town's postmistress. It is privately owned and has a field stone foundation and board-and-batten siding.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a good example of a small-town commercial-mixed use building of the late 19th century, with a utilitarian design and board-and-batten siding. It also served as the town's communication center and as its only federal government facility for nearly a century. It reflects the role of a woman, Sallie L. Bruce, as a salaried federal postmistress.","narrative":"This small frame building on Cassville Road in Bartow County, Georgia, was built about 1889 to serve as both post office and home. Local tradition says John C. McTier built it for his widowed sister, Sallie L. Bruce, who was postmistress from 1887 until her death in 1915. She lived in the rear and served the public from the front. The one-story structure measures roughly 14 by 25 feet and rests on a field stone foundation. Its sides and rear carry board-and-batten siding of southern yellow pine, an unusual choice for this building type, while the front has clapboard. Ornament is limited to shed roof brackets. Cassville had been burned during the Civil War and lost its county seat, and this was the town's only federal building. Postal service continued here until 1989. The building was listed for its architecture, its role in local communications, and its government use. Its period of significance runs from 1889 to 1942.","period_of_significance":"1889-1942","architect_builder":"Unknown (local tradition credits John C. McTier as builder)","architectural_style":"No Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The post office moved to a new building in 1989; the building's current function is listed as a specialty shop, and it is described as in good to fair condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.514416-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/92001129.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001129/c184f7c4ab-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001129/c184f7c4ab-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Amesmultimedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassville_Post_Office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Amesmultimedia</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:Cassville_Post_Office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206941","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassville_Post_Office","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65048435"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bartow-county/cassville-post-office-92001129/"}