The U.S. Post Office

The U.S. Post Office Building was built in 1917 by Algernon Blair of Montgomery, Alabama, with James Wetmore serving as the supervising architect, and it opened for business on August 1, 1918. Typical of buildings constructed by the U.S. Government through the 1930s, it later became the City Library for Sanford after a new post office was finished two blocks away in 1962, and in 1975 it became part of the Seminole County library system. Architecturally, it fits the Classical Revival style, constructed of red pressed brick and remaining basically unaltered, with trim in Georgia sandstone, white sandstone pillars, Venetian windows, marble occuli flanking the recessed entrance, and an original exterior that is essentially intact; it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Sanford, Florida · United States