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United States Post Office and Courthouse (Big Stone Gap, Virginia)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
75002043

Added to NRHP
  
23 December 1975

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Built
  
1911-1913

VLR #
  
101-0004

Architect
  
James Knox Taylor

United States Post Office and Courthouse (Big Stone Gap, Virginia)

Location
  
322 Wood Ave. E. Big Stone Gap, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Second Renaissance Revival

The C. Bascom Slemp Federal Building, also known as the Big Stone Gap Post Office and U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, is a historic courthouse and post office building located in Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia. It was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James Knox Taylor and built between 1911 and 1913. It is a three-story, seven bay, stone building with a low hipped roof in the Second Renaissance Revival style. The front facade features a three bay Tuscan order portico consisting of four pairs of coupled, unfluted columns. The building is named for Congressman C. Bascom Slemp.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

References

United States Post Office and Courthouse (Big Stone Gap, Virginia) Wikipedia