United States Post Office (Mount Olive, North Carolina) (original) (raw)

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United States historic place

US Post Office, Former
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic districtContributing property
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Location 124 W. James St., Mount Olive, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°11′50″N 78°4′1″W / 35.19722°N 78.06694°W / 35.19722; -78.06694
Area less than one acre
Built 1931 (1931)-1933
Built by General Engineering Corporation
Architect Office of the Supervising Architect under James A. Wetmore
Architectural style Classical Revival
NRHP reference No. 95000670[1]
Added to NRHP June 2, 1995

The former United States Post Office is a historic post office building located at Mount Olive, Wayne County, North Carolina. It was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James A. Wetmore and built in 1931–1933. It is a two-story, seven-bay, T-shaped, brick building in the Classical Revival style. The central five bays of the front facade features a colonnade of six unfluted Roman Ionic order columns in antis. The building has been converted to office space.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.[1] It is located in the Mount Olive Historic District.

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Black & Black and Joyce J. Rice (March 1995). "US Post Office, Former (Former)" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved July 1, 2015.