United States Post Office (Boone, North Carolina)

US Post Office-Boone
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
US Post Office Boone, July 2010
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Location	679 W. King St., Boone, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°13′11″N81°41′10″W / 36.21972°N 81.68611°W / 36.21972; -81.68611
Area	less than one acre
Built	1938 (1938)
Architect	Simon, Louis A.
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	95001521 [1]
Added to NRHP	January 11, 1996

US Post Office-Boone is a historic post office building located at Boone, Watauga County, North Carolina. It was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon and built in 1938. The post office was built by the Works Progress Administration as a part of the New Deal ^[2] . It is a steel framed stone building on a raised native stone foundation in the Colonial Revival style. It consists of a five bay by two bay main block with a three bay service block. The building features Doric order pilasters at the entry and an octagonal lantern on the roof ridge with paired Tuscan order columns. ^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. ^[1]

The U.S. Postal Service began taking steps toward selling the Boone Post Office in 2008. As the Postal Service was going through the clearance process to sell a historic building from the North Carolina State Preservation Office, Boone locals gathered to stop the sale and acquisition by a Colorado Asset Management company. The Town of Boone purchased the Boone Post Office from the Postal Service in 2009 for $1.25 million, with a 20 year lease. ^[2] The Town of Boone continued to renovate the property up until 2013, removing lead paint and asbestos and keeping the original native stone safe. ^[4]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Edwards, Madalyn; Wishneski, Colin (August 24, 2025). "The Boone post office through the years". The Appalachian. Retrieved September 4, 2025.
3. Kaye Reynolds Edmisten (August 1995). "US Post Office-Boone" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
4. Ken (October 25, 2013). "A 'Culmination of 200 Years of Postal History' in Downtown Boone, Grand Opening of Renovated Post Office Sunday, Oct. 27". High Country Press. Retrieved September 4, 2025.