United States Post Office, Lancaster, Pennsylvania | |
Old Post Office, April 2010 | |
Location | 50 W. Chestnut St., Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°2′26″N 76°18′28″W / 40.04056°N 76.30778°W |
Area | 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) |
Built | 1928–1930 |
Architect | Office of the Supervising Architect under James A. Wetmore, Algernon Blair |
Architectural style | Moderne, Beaux Arts Classicism |
NRHP reference No. | 81000545 [1] |
Added to NRHP | July 23, 1981 |
The United States Post Office in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania is an historic, American post office building.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. [1]
Built between 1928 and 1930, this historic structure was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under Acting Supervising Architect James A. Wetmore. It is a two-story, fifteen-bay-wide building with a high basement and attic and a slate-covered mansard roof. It is faced in Indiana limestone and features a balustrade and parapet at the roofline. It has a one-story rear wing. The front elevation has eleven bays separated by two-story, Tuscan order pilasters. It is an example of Beaux-Arts-style architecture with Moderne influences. The site was previously the location of the Lancasterian School and a Moravian graveyard. [2] The building is now a corporate headquarters for Auntie Anne's.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. [1]