Little Post Office is a historic

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...

building located at

Martinsville, Virginia Martinsville is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,485. A community of both Southside and Southwest Virginia, it is the county seat of Henry County, although ...

. It was built in 1893, and is a small one-story, gable front brick building with a frame rear extension. The exterior and one-room interior of the building are detailed in the Queen Anne style. It was used as a contract post office by

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mail delivery supervisor John B. Anglin from 1893 to 1917. an
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in 1997. It is located in the

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. It is now part of an art installation of the

Piedmont Arts Association Piedmont Arts or the Piedmont Arts Association is a nonprofit art museum and educational outreach center in Martinsville, Virginia. It is a Museum Partner of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond and is accredited by the American Alliance of ...

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Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Government buildings completed in 1893 Queen Anne architecture in Virginia Buildings and structures in Martinsville, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Martinsville, Virginia Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Virginia 1893 establishments in Virginia {{MartinsvilleVA-NRHP-stub