United_States_Post_Office_and_Courthouse–Globe_Main

United States Post Office and Courthouse–Globe Main

United States Post Office and Courthouse–Globe Main

United States historic place

The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse-Globe Main, in Globe, Arizona, was built in 1926. Also known as Globe Post Office and Courthouse and as Globe Main Post Office, the building served historically as a courthouse of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, and as a post office and reflects Beaux Arts architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

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Its NRHP nomination asserts that it "is a particularly well executed example of federal design in the Neo-Classical style." Its construction was a local victory, an event "that symbolized the culmination of many years of effort in lobbying the federal government in order to secure their first and only federal building."[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. [2]
    Paul R. Secord and H. Jim Kolva (August 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Globe Post Office and Courthouse / Globe Main Post Office". National Park Service. Retrieved December 1, 2016. with four photos from 1985
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