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HISTORIC U.S. POST OFFICE

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1914, Oscar Wenderoth, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. 178 S. Main St.

U.S. Treasury Department architects designed post offices for towns throughout the nation, and Grenada’s post office came from that office. Grenada’s Colonial Revival building, a story and a half tall, has brick walls in a modified English bond, round arches, a steep side-gabled roof, false end-wall chimneys, and prominent dormers.

C. H. Lindsley designed the brick and limestone neoclassical revival former Masonic Temple (1925) nearby at 204 S. Main and gave it an imposing entablature supported by fluted Doric columns in antis.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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GRENADA COMMUNITY HOUSE
HOUSES ON MARGIN STREET

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "HISTORIC U.S. POST OFFICE", [Grenada, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-NC1.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 140-140.

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