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United States Post Office–Holyoke Main - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 42°12′29″N 72°36′38″W / 42.20806°N 72.61056°W

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US Post Office—Holyoke Main
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

US Post Office-Holyoke Main
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Location	650 Dwight St., Holyoke, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°12′29″N 72°36′38″W / 42.20806°N 72.61056°W / 42.20806; -72.61056
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1933 (1933)
Architect	Alderman, George P.B., & Co.; James, Thomas M., & Co.
Architectural style	Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	86000122 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 21, 1986

The US Post Office—Holyoke Main is a historic post office building at 650 Dwight Street in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It opened in 1935, as a replacement for an earlier post office location at 31 Main Street, and is a distinctive local example of Art Deco architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.^[1]

The building is one of two post office locations serving the city, with a second in Ingleside at the Holyoke Mall.^[2]

Description and history

Holyoke's main post office is located in the city's downtown, on the south side of Dwight Street between Elm and Chestnut Streets. It is a broad two-story structure, built with a steel frame and finished in limestone with granite trim. It has a tall central five-bay section flanked by single-story wings that are two bays wide, with entrances in the outer bays of the central section. Each entry is topped by a transom and a panel with a carved eagle. The main lobby is finished in marble terrazzo flooring, with marble wainscoting and plaster walls, rising to a carved cornice. Part of the wall is painted with a mural depicting the early settlement of Holyoke.^[3]

The Art Deco building, a stylistic rarity in Holyoke, was built for a total cost (including land and construction) of $284,000. The lobby mural was executed by Ross Moffett as part of a Depression-era jobs program for artists. The building's location was a matter of some local dispute, with competing interests remaining undecided until the Postal Service threatened to withdraw the project entirely. The second floor interior originally held a variety of other government offices, but is now largely unused.^[4]

A graphic showing the post office building, printed on commemorative envelopes for "USPS Air Mail Week", 1938

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ Ingleside Mall, USPS Location Details
^ "NRHP nomination for United States Post Office–Holyoke Main". National Archive. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
^ "MACRIS inventory record for United States Post Office - Holyoke Main". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-10.

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Media related to United States Post Office (Holyoke, Massachusetts) at Wikimedia Commons

USPS Location Details – Holyoke, current operating hours and services offered at the location

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts

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