Pawtucket Post Office

	Pawtucket Post Office
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
Location	Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Coordinates	41°52′42″N 71°23′4″W / 41.87833°N 71.38444°W
Built	1896
Architect	William Martin Aiken; James Knox Taylor
Architectural style	Beaux Arts
Part of	Downtown Pawtucket Historic District (ID06001227)
NRHP reference No.	76000226
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 30, 1976
Designated CP	April 5, 2007

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.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.^[1] The building housed the post office until 1941, and then municipal offices.^[2] It is now part of the Pawtucket public library.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ ^a ^b "NRHP nomination for Pawtucket Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-11-18.

This article about a Registered Historic Place in Providence County, Rhode Island is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Pawtucket Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-11-18.

[1]

[2]

v t e U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Topics	Architectural style categories Contributing property Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places Keeper of the Register National Park Service Property types
Lists by state	List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks by state: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Lists by insular areas	American Samoa Guam Minor Outlying Islands Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico Virgin Islands
Lists by associated state	Federated States of Micronesia Marshall Islands Palau
Other areas	District of Columbia American Legation, Morocco
Related	National Historic Preservation Act Historic Preservation Fund List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places portal Category

See also

References