Franklin Post Office (former)

Franklin Post Office (former)

Franklin Post Office (former) Jason R. Waicunas

Franklin Post Office (former)

1916–1917, James A. Wetmore, architect in charge, Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury Department. 301 N. Main St. (northwest corner of N. Main St. and W. 3rd Ave.)

The gem of downtown is now business offices. A typically excellent government-issue design, its facade recalls McKim, Mead and White's Pierpont Morgan Library (1906) in New York, though here the materials relate to colonial and Georgian architecture.

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