Wakefield Post Office at 321 Main Street, Wakefield, Mass.
Item
Title
Wakefield Post Office at 321 Main Street, Wakefield, Mass.
Description
Photos show the U. S. Post Office located at 321 Main Street on the west side of the street at the corner of Yale Avenue. Wakefield's post office was located in several places in town before this building was built, the latest home having been in the building at 9 Albion Street, now the Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department, where it was housed from 1924 to 1937. Built in 1936, the new neo-renaissance style structure was designed by architect Louis A. Simon. It has an exterior of red brick and cast stone, and on the Main Street facade are medallions of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. A large rear addition was added in 1970.
Detailed entry in building survey, "The cultural resources of Wakefield", pD72
The house is part of the Common Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places
Photos taken at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 24, 2008
Contributor
Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
Coverage
Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield
321 Main Street (Wakefield, Mass.)
Creator
Klapes, Jeffrey M., 1964-
Date
04-24-2008
Format
image/jpeg
Publisher
[Wakefield, Mass. : The author]
Subject
Post office buildings
Architecture, Domestic
Postal service
Type
still image
Photographs
Original Format
9 photographs : digital, JPEG file, color