Old Walnut Ridge Post Office

United States historic place


Old Walnut Ridge Post Office
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


36°4′10″N 90°57′27″W / 36.06944°N 90.95750°W / 36.06944; -90.95750
Area	less than one acre
Built	1935 (1935)
Architect	Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon, Neal A. Melick
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	94000496^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 20, 1994

The Old Walnut Ridge Post Office is a historic commercial building at 225 West Main Street in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story T-shaped brick structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and a full concrete basement. Its Colonial Revival features include a centered entry, flanked by Ionic pilasters and topped by a broken gabled pediment. The remaining bays are filled with nine-over-nine sash windows. The eave is plain concrete, except for a course of modillions just below the roof line. The building was designed under Louis A. Simon of the Office of the Supervising Architect and was completed in 1935. It served as a post office until 1977, and then served as the facilities of the local Times Dispatch newspaper.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for Old Walnut Ridge Post Office". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-12-24.