The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, also known as Statesville City Hall, 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 ...

and

courthouse A courthouse or court house is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities. The term is common in North America. In most other English-spe ...

building located at Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was designed in the

Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanesque ...

style by Willoughby J. Edbrooke and built in 1891. It is a rectangular 2 1/2-story structure, seven bays wide, and three bays deep. It is constructed of red brick and sandstone. The building has a two-story corner tower, one-story entrance pavilion with central arched recessed entrance, and a tall hip roof. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1974. It is located in the

Statesville Commercial Historic District Statesville Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. It encompasses 54 contributing buildings in the central business district of Statesville. The district includes n ...

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Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Government buildings completed in 1891 Buildings and structures in Iredell County, North Carolina Statesville Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Iredell County, North Carolina Historic district contributing properties in North Carolina {{IredellCountyNC-NRHP-stub