{"nrhp_refnum":"96000735","name":"US Post Office-Sylvester","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"122 N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sylvester","county":"Worth County","state":"GA","lat":31.527289470000028,"lon":-83.83498329299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-07-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, five-bay brick post office at 122 North Main Street in Sylvester, Worth County, Georgia, designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury and completed in December 1937, with a 1938 landscape plan.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a representative example of small-town post offices built between 1932 and 1942 under New Deal programs, combining Colonial Revival details with an International-style form. It also has a lobby mural of the local cantaloupe industry by Chester J. Tingler, which adds artistic significance. The building retains high integrity.","narrative":"This one-story brick post office on North Main Street in Sylvester, Georgia, was built in 1937 to plans from the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. Its smooth, flat-roofed form reflects the International style, while English bond brickwork, fluted pilasters, a dentil entablature and a symmetrical five-bay facade add Colonial Revival character. Inside, the public lobby has pink Etowah marble wainscoting, original desks and bulletin boards, and an oil-on-linen mural by Chester J. Tingler showing the cantaloupe industry of Southwest Georgia, from plowing to trucking produce to distant markets. The J. M. Raymond Construction Company of Jacksonville, Florida, built it for $39,889, finishing two weeks ahead of schedule. Mail service continued until 1995, when fumes entering the basement forced a move to another site. The building is valued as a representative New Deal post office with its original plan, fittings and mural largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1937-1939","architect_builder":"Simon, Louis A. (Supervising Architect); Seiz, Emil C., Jr. (Construction Engineer); Tingler, Chester J. (Mural Artist)","architectural_style":"Modern Movement/International Style; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Operated as a post office until 1995, when petroleum fumes entering through the basement created health hazards; the form lists its current function as vacant/not in use, with postal operations moved to a temporary location in Sylvester.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.495018-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/96000735.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000735/be64e04cd2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000735/be64e04cd2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Post_Office_-_Sylvester.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</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:U.S._Post_Office_-_Sylvester.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"02000454","name":"Sylvester Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/sylvester-commercial-historic-district-boundary-increase-02000454/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93210005","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Sylvester,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16919222"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/worth-county/us-post-office-sylvester-96000735/"}