Built 1896 Designated CP April 5, 2007 Area 8,094 m² Added to NRHP 30 April 1976 | NRHP Reference # 76000226 Opened 1896 Architectural style Beaux-Arts architecture | |
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Location Pawtucket, Rhode Island Part of Downtown Pawtucket Historic District (#06001227) Architects James Knox Taylor, William Martin Aiken Similar O'Brien General Store and, Bristol Customshouse and Post, Deborah Cook Sayles P, Post Office Building - Upper Mo | ||
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The Pawtucket Post Office is an historic government building at 56 High Street in the historic central business district of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The building's design was supervised by William Martin Aiken and James Knox Taylor, supervising architects of the United States Treasury Department during the building's construction in 1895-97. It is Beaux Arts in style, with a domed tower at the corner which originally housed its main entrance. The entranceway, now closed off, is framed by granite Doric columns supporting an entablature, on top of which sit two stone eagles. The street-facing facades radiate away from this entrance, with five round-arch window bays separated by pilasters, with pedimented secondary entrances at the far end.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The building housed the post office until 1941, and then municipal offices. It is now part of the Pawtucket public library.