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United States Post Office (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)

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Area
  
1.5 acres (0.61 ha)

NRHP Reference #
  
81000545

Built
  
1928-1930

United States Post Office (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)

Location
  
50 W. Chestnut St., Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Architect
  
Wetmore, James A.; Blair, Algernon

Architectural style
  
Moderne, Beaux Arts, Other, Beaux Arts Classicism

U.S. Post Office is a historic post office building located at Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1928 and 1930, and 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 slate covered mansard roof. It is faced in Indiana limestone and features a balsutrade 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. The building is now a corporate headquarters for Auntie Anne's.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

References

United States Post Office (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) Wikipedia