{"nrhp_refnum":"93000315","name":"US Post Office, Former","other_names":["Federal Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"405 E. Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Smithfield","county":"Johnston County","state":"NC","lat":35.51037108000003,"lon":-78.34421209499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-04-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story-on-basement brick former post office at 405 East Market Street in Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, completed in 1936 in the Colonial/Federal Revival style.","why_significant":"It is argued to be significant in politics/government as Smithfield's major symbol of the federal presence in the 1930s and as an example of classically detailed Depression-era federal post offices. It replaced a 1928 post office destroyed by fire in 1934. The exterior remains largely intact, while the interior was altered in 1969-1970 and 1991.","narrative":"Completed in 1936 at 405 East Market Street in Smithfield, this brick building served as the town post office for just over thirty years, until January 1968. It replaced an earlier post office built in 1928 and destroyed by fire in 1934, and was funded through federal public works support sought by town leaders and their congressman. The five-bay front features an Ionic frontispiece with a broken pediment, a slate roof, limestone trim and nine-over-nine sash windows. The General Services Administration renovated it in 1969-1970 for four federal agricultural agencies and added the aluminum \"FEDERAL BUILDING\" lettering on the facade. In 1991 it was converted to law offices. Although the interior was substantially changed, the exterior remains largely intact, and some original basement features, including restrooms and doors, survive. Its significance rests on its role as a local symbol of the federal government and as an example of classically detailed Depression-era post offices.","period_of_significance":"1935-1936","architect_builder":"U.S. Treasury","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival (described in the text as Federal Revival)","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Renovated in 1991 for use as law offices; the former post office is now in professional office use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.025737-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/7210/47721012/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93000315.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000315/58ccfeb934-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000315/58ccfeb934-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Ammodramus","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smithfield,_North_Carolina_former_post_office_from_SW_2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ammodramus</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:Smithfield,_North_Carolina_former_post_office_from_SW_2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721012","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_United_States_Post_Office_(Smithfield,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19817719"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/johnston-county/us-post-office-former-93000315/"}