National Register of Historic Places
United States Post Office and Custom House
St. Albans, Franklin County, Vermont
The record
- Listed
- April 5, 2017
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 40 S. Main St., St. Albans
- County
- Franklin
- State
- Vermont
- Contributing resources
- 1 building
- Coordinates
- 44.80934, -73.08402
- Reference number
- 100000817
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The story
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The United States Post Office and Custom House is a Colonial Revival government building at 40 S. Main St. in St. Albans, Franklin County, built in 1938. Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, and Lorimer Rich were its architects; artist Philip von Saltza also contributed.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local significance in architecture and politics and government, and its period of significance runs from 1938 to 1967, reflecting its 1938 construction and the 1966-1967 addition of a Federal Office Building wing. Construction began in 1937 and the building opened on August 24, 1938.
Physical character
The building has a white Vermont marble foundation and Flemish bond brick walls, and its lobby has polished black terrazzo floors with marble wainscoting. Its original gray Vermont slate roof was replaced with asphalt shingles in 1979 and, around 2012, with shingles simulating slate.
Historical context
St. Albans was founded in 1788 and surveyed in 1763; Silas Hathaway's 1793 house and tavern became the site of the town's first post office, established by the federal government in 1800. A second post office was built in 1895 in the Richardson Romanesque style, and rural free mail delivery began in 1896.