{"nrhp_refnum":"95001521","name":"US Post Office-Boone","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"679 W. King St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boone","county":"Watauga County","state":"NC","lat":36.219883424000045,"lon":-81.68585788899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-01-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Colonial Revival post office of dressed stone at 679 West King Street in Boone, Watauga County, North Carolina, erected in 1938 on a terraced lot overlooking the town's main street.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building illustrates the New Deal federal building program in small North Carolina communities, designed under the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. It also holds a Daniel Boone mural commissioned through a national Section of Fine Arts competition, the only surviving New Deal post office mural in the state's northwestern mountains. The building is presented as a civic landmark that has remained in postal service.","narrative":"Built in 1938 on a terraced lot above King Street in Boone, this one-story post office is faced in dressed stone and set on a raised foundation. Its main entrance has a Doric-pilastered surround, a spider-web fanlight and a copper-clad roof topped by an octagonal lantern with a weathervane marked 1938. The building follows a standard federal plan designed under Louis A. Simon, supervising architect of the Treasury, with a formal public block, a service block and a rear loading dock. The lobby holds Tennessee marble wainscoting, a terrazzo floor and an oil-on-canvas mural by Connecticut artist Alan Tompkins, installed in 1940, showing a young Daniel Boone on a hunting trip. Construction was tied to the 1937 public buildings legislation and to Congressman Robert L. Doughton, who secured the appropriation. The building is valued for its architecture, its surviving New Deal art, and its role in the civic life of Boone.","period_of_significance":"1938-1945","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon (architect, Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury); Neal A. Melick (supervising engineer)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Remains in postal service; the main entry has modern plate glass doors and the rear block contains a community group's rented space.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.469715-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/80/7227/47722780/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/95001521.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001521/21b73db1d9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001521/21b73db1d9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"G Keith Hall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office_Boone.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">G Keith Hall</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:US_Post_Office_Boone.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722780","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Boone,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20715010"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/watauga-county/us-post-office-boone-95001521/"}