The U. S. Post Office is a historic building located in
Kingman, Arizona
Kingman is a city in, and the county seat of, Mohave County, Arizona, United States. It is named after Lewis Kingman, an engineer for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. It is located southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, and northwest of Arizona's ...
. The post office was built in 1935. The design of the post office is Period Revival with Italian influence.
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 ...
was the Supervisor Architect and
Neal A. Melick was the Supervisor Engineer. The first post office building for Kingman, the earlier post offices were located in stores. Today the post office is owned by the City of Kingman and is used for office space in the downtown area. It is across the street from the Little Red School and around the corner of the street of the
old Elks Lodge.
The building 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 1986.
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See also
*List of United States post offices
Several United States post offices are individually notable and have operated under the authority of the United States Post Office Department (1792–1971) or of the United States Postal Service (since 1971). Notable U.S. post offices include in ...
References
{{National Register of Historic Places
Buildings and structures in Kingman, Arizona
Kingman
Government buildings completed in 1935
National Register of Historic Places in Kingman, Arizona