United States Post Office–Milton Main

US Post Office-Milton Main
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	499 Adams St., Milton, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°15′30″N 71°2′32.5″W / 42.25833°N 71.042361°W / 42.25833; -71.042361
Built	1936; 87 years ago (1936)
Architect	Simon, Louis A.
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	86001213 [1]
Added to NRHP	May 30, 1986

The Milton Main Post Office is a historic post office building at 499 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts. The single-story granite building was built in 1936 out of locally quarried stone. The building is roofed in copper and has a wooden tower with louvered side panels and copper roofing. The interior public lobby has terrazzo marble flooring, and white marble wainscoting, with the walls above finished in plaster. The ceiling is ringed by an ornamental plaster cornice. One wall is decorated by a mural depicting scenes of the American Revolution painted by Elizabeth Tracy and funded by the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture, a Depression-era jobs program.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.^[1]

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See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Milton, Massachusetts
• List of United States post offices

References

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