United States Post Office (Boone, North Carolina)
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US Post Office-Boone is a historic post office building located at Boone,
Watauga County, North Carolina Watauga County ( )
from the North Carolina Collection's website at the
. It was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under
Louis A. Simon Louis Adolphe Simon (1867–1958) was an American architect. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Simon was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following a tour of Europe, he opened an architectural office in Baltimore, M ...
and built in 1938. It is a steel framed stone building on a raised stone foundation in the Colonial Revival style. It consists of a five bay by two bay main block with a three bay service block. The building features Doric order pilasters at the entry and an octagonal lantern on the roof ridge with paired Tuscan order columns. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.


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Boone Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Government buildings completed in 1938 Buildings and structures in Watauga County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Watauga County, North Carolina {{WataugaCountyNC-NRHP-stub