The Old Guntersville Post Office is a historic

U.S. Post Office The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal serv ...

Guntersville, Alabama Guntersville (previously known as Gunter's Ferry and later Gunter's Landing) is a city and the county seat of Marshall County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population of the city was 8,553. Guntersville is located in a HUB ...

. It was built in 1940–41 with federal Treasury Department funds in

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the arch ...

style. The building houses a painting by

Charles Russell Hardman Charles Russell Hardman was an American artist from Florida. He painted works in U.S. Post Offices under a Treasury Department program. His "Indians Receiving Gifts" mural is at the Guntersville Post Office in Guntersville, Alabama Guntersvil ...

. The Guntersville Post Office was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

on August 16, 2010.

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National Register of Historic Places in Marshall County, Alabama Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama Buildings and structures in Marshall County, Alabama {{MarshallCountyAL-NRHP-stub