United States Post Office (Arlington, Virginia)

Significant dates
US Post Office-Arlington
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register

Arlington Post Office, September 2012

Location	3118 N. Washington Blvd., Arlington, Virginia
Coordinates	38°53′8″N 77°5′44″W / 38.88556°N 77.09556°W / 38.88556; -77.09556Coordinates: 38°53′8″N 77°5′44″W / 38.88556°N 77.09556°W / 38.88556; -77.09556
Area	0.8 acres (0.32 ha)
Built	1937 (1937)
Architect	Simon, Louis A.; Et al.
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival
NRHP Reference #	86000151^[1]
VLR #	000-0070
Added to NRHP	February 7, 1986
Designated VLR	August 13, 1985^[2]

US Post Office-Arlington is a historic post office building located in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. It was designed and built in 1937, and is one of a number of post offices designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under Louis A. Simon. The building is a one-story, pentagonal shaped brick building in the Georgian Revival style. Atop the entrance portico is a dome that rises above the buildings flat roof and is supported by four fluted limestone piers. The interior features murals by Auriel Bessemer picturing Indians on Analostan Island, Captain John Smith and the Indians, tobacco picking by the Lee mansion, Robert E. Lee receiving his Confederate commission in Richmond, a picnic at Great Falls, polo players at Fort Myer, and a contemporary harvest at an apple orchard.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.^[1]

References

1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
↑ Betty Bird (June 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: US Post Office-Arlington" (PDF). and Accompanying photo

External links

Arlington Post Office, 3118 N. Washington Boulevard, Arlington, Arlington County, VA: 3 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Virginia

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