John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse
United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Federal Building | |
Location | 5 Post Office Square Boston, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°21′26″N 71°3′25″W / 42.35722°N 71.05694°W |
Area | 2.2 acres (0.89 ha) |
Built | 1931–1933 |
Architectural style | Art Deco |
NRHP reference No. | 11000160[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 8, 2011 |
The John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse, formerly the United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Federal Building is a historic building at 5 Post Office Square in Boston, Massachusetts. The twenty-two story, 331-foot (101 m) skyscraper was built between 1931 and 1933 to house federal courts, offices, and post office facilities. The Art Deco and Moderne structure was designed in a collaboration between the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department and the Boston architectural firm of Cram and Ferguson. It occupies a city block bounded by Congress, Devonshire, Water, and Milk Streets, and has over 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) of floor space. The exterior of the building is faced in granite from a variety of New England sources, as well as Indiana limestone.[2]
The building is named for John W. McCormack, a long-serving Boston Congressman who was Speaker of the House from 1962 to 1971.
The building was designated a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1998 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.[1]
See also
External links
- City of Boston, Boston Landmarks CommissionMcCormack Post Office and Court House
- List of United States Post Offices
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Federal Building". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
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The John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse from the corner of Milk and Pearl Streets
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Above the entrance facing Congress Street
- Office buildings completed in 1933
- Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Courthouses in Boston
- Courthouses in Massachusetts
- Art Deco architecture in Massachusetts
- Skyscraper office buildings in Boston
- National Register of Historic Places in Boston
- Boston Registered Historic Place stubs
- Boston building and structure stubs