{"nrhp_refnum":"92001719","name":"US Post Office-Hanover","other_names":["Hanover Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"141 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hanover","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":39.80217706900004,"lon":-76.98192455199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-12-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former United States Post Office building at the corner of Broadway and Locust Street in the borough of Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, built between 1911 and 1913 from designs by James Knox Taylor. It is a sandstone building in the Renaissance Revival style.","why_significant":"The building is regarded as one of the borough's finest examples of Renaissance Revival architecture and as the first building in Hanover constructed solely to house its post office. It reflects the expansion of mail service to small towns and rural areas before World War I and the federal government's architectural aims of that period. Its design is compared with Taylor's York and Gettysburg post offices, and its interior lobby detailing has survived.","narrative":"Built of smooth cut sandstone on a raised granite foundation, the former post office at Broadway and Locust Streets in Hanover was designed by James Knox Taylor and opened in 1913. Its main west facade has a trio of arches, with the center one serving as the entrance, topped by anthemion reliefs and eagle panels. Inside, polished marble columns with gilded Corinthian capitals support vaulted arches in the lobby, and a skylight lights the ceiling. The building served as the borough's post office until 1969, when the Postal Service moved to a larger facility needed for growing mail and parcel volumes. It was later used as a clothing store and then converted into office suites in 1991. It is valued as one of the best local examples of Renaissance Revival design and as a product of federal building programs in the years before World War I, when Congress tied post office scale to local postal receipts.","period_of_significance":"1913-1942","architect_builder":"James Knox Taylor (architect)","architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Renovated in 1991 into office suites through a historic rehabilitation","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.017089-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/92001719.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001719/a7df6caa3b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001719/a7df6caa3b-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Post_Office_Hanover,_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Post_Office_Hanover,_PA.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"96001552","name":"Hanover Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/hanover-historic-district-96001552/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995748","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Hanover,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890963"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/us-post-office-hanover-92001719/"}