The U.S. Post Office and Customhouse in Gulfport, Mississippi is a historic post office and customhouse that was completed in 1910 under supervision of the U.S. Treasury Department, with James Knox Taylor as

Supervising Architect The Office of the Supervising Architect was an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings from 1852 to 1939. The office handled some of the most important architectural commissions of the nineteenth ...

. One of the oldest public or commercial structures in the city, it also has been known as Downtown Station and as Old Main Post Office. In 1963 a one-story extension to the rear was added. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Its NRHP nomination asserted "It is a beautifully proportioned building with elegant and tasteful embellishments and is significant as one of the finest examples of

Second Renaissance Revival architecture Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ...

in Mississippi." with

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* Government buildings completed in 1910 Renaissance Revival architecture in Mississippi Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi Buildings and structures in Gulfport, Mississippi National Register of Historic Places in Harrison County, Mississippi Custom houses on the National Register of Historic Places {{Mississippi-NRHP-stub