National Register of Historic Places
United States Post Office
Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina
The record
- Listed
- April 29, 2015
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 100 E. Mountain St., Kings Mountain
- County
- Cleveland
- State
- North Carolina
- Contributing resources
- 1 building
- Coordinates
- 35.23719, -81.34181
- Reference number
- 15000202
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The story
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The United States Post Office is a building at 100 E. Mountain St. in Kings Mountain, built in 1939-1940 in the Colonial Revival style. Louis A. Simon designed it, and L. B. Gallimore, Incorporated served as builder.
Why it's listed
It was listed in the National Register in 2015 under criteria A and C, with local significance in architecture and in politics and government. The nomination gives its period of significance as 1939 to 1940, the years the post office was built.
Physical character
The building has a granite foundation and brick walls, with an Indiana limestone frontispiece and frieze, a hipped roof, a cupola and a weathervane. Granite steps and six-over-six wood sash windows survive, along with a terrazzo floor, marble wainscot and a walk-in vault fitted with a Schwab Safe Co. door. The terra cotta roof tiles were replaced with asphalt shingles in 2011, and an L-shaped brick sign was added to the front lawn in 2010.
Historical context
The post office replaced rented quarters used since 1873, and it opened in 1940. It served as the post office until 1986, and the city bought the building in 1990 for $90,000. It opened as the Kings Mountain Historical Museum in 2000.