{"nrhp_refnum":"95000670","name":"US Post Office, Former","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"124 W. James St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mount Olive","county":"Wayne County","state":"NC","lat":35.19740398300007,"lon":-78.06674447699999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-06-02","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 former United States Post Office at the northeast corner of Chestnut and James Streets in the central business district of Mount Olive, Wayne County, North Carolina. It was built in 1931-1933.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a well-composed and relatively intact representative example of a classically inspired small-town post office built during the Depression-era expansion of federal public building construction. It is also cited for its association with public works programs created to provide employment and for illustrating the federal move from leased quarters to government-owned post offices.","narrative":"Built in 1931-1933 on a corner lot in Mount Olive, this two-story brick post office follows the Classical Revival style and was designed by James A. Wetmore, Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury. The hipped-roofed front section is faced in red brick laid in Flemish bond, with a recessed colonnade of six Roman Ionic columns in antis and trim of limestone. A copper roof, a brick parapet and a lobby with brown marble wainscoting and terrazzo floors remain largely unaltered. The building was erected with an appropriation of $75,000 after the town's population grew past 2,500 and the postal service sought a federally owned facility. Its construction reflects the Depression-era surge in federal building projects, when many public works programs employed masons and carpenters. It is considered a typical example of the standardized small-town post offices designed in Washington during that period.","period_of_significance":"1931-1945","architect_builder":"James A. Wetmore (architect); General Engineering Corporation (builder), with National Surety Company taking over the construction contract","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The Mount Olive Post Office was sold with preservation covenants in 1993 and the purchaser planned to convert the building to office space.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.713916-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/7228/47722823/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/95000670.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000670/0f16c799b4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000670/0f16c799b4-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Indy beetle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Former_Mount_Olive_post_office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Indy beetle</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:Former_Mount_Olive_post_office.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"99000639","name":"Mount Olive Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/mount-olive-historic-district-99000639/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722823","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Mount_Olive,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20679853"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wayne-county/us-post-office-former-95000670/"}