United States Post Office Building (Selma, Alabama)

	U.S. Post Office Building
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The building in 2010
Location	908 Alabama Ave., Selma, Alabama
Coordinates	32°24′27″N 87°1′15″W / 32.40750°N 87.02083°WCoordinates: 32°24′27″N 87°1′15″W / 32.40750°N 87.02083°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1909
Architect	Office of the Supervising Architect
Architectural style	Beaux-Arts
NRHP reference No.	76000322
Added to NRHP	March 26, 1976

The U.S. Post Office Building in Selma, Alabama, also known as the Federal Building or United States Courthouse.^[1]

Architecture and history

The Beaux-Arts-style building was constructed in 1909 and designed by architects and engineers in the Office of the Supervising Architect under James Knox Taylor. It was built to house facilities of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, the United States Post Office and other federal agencies. In 1928 a one-story addition was added to the rear of the building, and the post office later moved to a new building on the other side of downtown.^[2]^[3]

The arch in front of the building was built in 1913 as a memorial to John Tyler Morgan and Edmund W. Pettus, Senators from Alabama. The design was by Hugh A. Price, a monument designer from Chicago.^[3]^[4]

It was listed, for its architecture, in the National Register of Historic Places on March 26, 1976.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Gamble, Robert (2001). Historic architecture in Alabama: A guide to styles and types, 1810-1930. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. pp. 138–145. ISBN 978-0-8173-1134-6.
^ ^a ^b US Post Office Building NRHP Registration Form (1976)
^ Confederate Veteran 21, no. 10 (October, 1913)

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See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Alabama and List of National Historic Landmarks in Alabama

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