The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse-Globe Main, in Globe, Arizona, was built in 1926. Also known as Globe Post Office and Courthouse and as Globe Main Post Office, the building served historically as a courthouse of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, and as a post office and reflects Beaux Arts architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
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| Location | Hill and Sycamore Sts., Globe, Arizona |
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| Coordinates | 33°23′13″N 110°47′6″W / 33.38694°N 110.78500°W |
| Area | 0.6 acres (0.24 ha) |
| Built | 1926 |
| Built by | Weise, J.H. |
| Architect | Office of the Supervising Architect under James A. Wetmore |
| Architectural style | Beaux Arts |
| MPS | Globe Commercial and Civic MRA (AD) |
| NRHP reference No. | 85003106[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 03, 1985 |
Its NRHP nomination asserts that it "is a particularly well executed example of federal design in the Neo-Classical style." Its construction was a local victory, an event "that symbolized the culmination of many years of effort in lobbying the federal government in order to secure their first and only federal building."[2]
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Paul R. Secord and H. Jim Kolva (August 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Globe Post Office and Courthouse / Globe Main Post Office". National Park Service. Retrieved December 1, 2016. with four photos from 1985
External links
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- Globe Post Office at USPS.com
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