US Post Office-Statesboro

Built in 1917-1918, this brick building at South Main and Vine Streets in downtown Statesboro served as the town's post office before the city purchased it in 1964 for municipal offices. It still serves as city hall. Designed under the U.S. Treasury Department following the 1913 Public Buildings Act, it shows the Colonial Revival influence then favored for federal buildings: a symmetrical facade, a central portico with pediment and fanlight, Doric columns, pilasters, festoons, a roofline balustrade, and Palladian windows. The nomination calls it the largest and most prominent Colonial Revival building in Statesboro, a clear departure from the town's Victorian architecture. It is also the city's only surviving historic postal building, representing how mail brought news and ideas to a growing small town before telephones, radio and television. Later changes include painted walls, added shutters, a ramp, a drive-through window and mostly new interior partitions, yet the exterior design remains largely intact.