{"nrhp_refnum":"92001495","name":"US Post Office-Connellsville","other_names":["Connellsville Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"115 N. Arch St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Connellsville","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":40.01620434600005,"lon":-79.58945761899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-06-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Classical Revival brick post office on North Arch Street in downtown Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, built 1911-1913 and still in use as a post office. It was built by W. H. Fissell Company of New York City.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a fine example of early 20th-century Classical Revival institutional architecture, with fluted Ionic marble columns at both entrances, and that it reflects the federal monumental building philosophy of Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor. It also ties the post office to the local coal and coke economy and to the community's drive for a federal building beginning in 1902.","narrative":"Built between 1911 and 1913 by the W. H. Fissell Company of New York City, the Connellsville Post Office is a two-story, five-bay Classical Revival building of brick on a sandstone foundation, trimmed with marble and marked by Ionic marble semi-columns at its North Arch Street and West Apple Street entrances. Designed under Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor, who favored monumental, individually designed federal buildings, it was begun in 1911 and occupied on January 25, 1913, replacing rented quarters that had housed postal service for about 115 years. The drive for the building started in 1902 with local newspaper editor Henry P. Snyder and an appropriation of $115,000 was approved in 1910. It is listed for its architecture and for its connection to the community's federal government work, and it is regarded as one of the last post offices built in this monumental tradition before the 1913 Public Buildings Act introduced standard designs.","period_of_significance":"1913-1942","architect_builder":"James Knox Taylor (Supervising Architect, Treasury); W. H. Fissell Company (contractor)","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a post office; the delivery and stamp windows are unused and that function is performed at the registry and money order window.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.314166-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/92001495.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001495/9b90fd6f71-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001495/9b90fd6f71-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Canadian2006","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post_Office_Connellsville_Pennsylvania.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian2006</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_Connellsville_Pennsylvania.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995130","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Connellsville,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890927"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/us-post-office-connellsville-92001495/"}