The Old Clovis Post Office at 4th and Mitchell Sts. in Clovis, New Mexico is a former

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...

built in 1931. It includes elements of

Classical Revival Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassic ...

and Mission/Spanish Revival architecture. It has also served as the Clovis-Carver Public Library. It is a two-story building with a hipped and flat roof, built on an

ashlar Ashlar () is a cut and dressed rock (geology), stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape. The term can also refer to a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, a ...

sandstone basement. It has various tan shades of brick in its walls and its roof is light-brown and orange tile. The building is significant as a public works project during the

Great Depression The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and ...

. With . It was built in the same year as the Hotel Clovis, which is also NRHP-listed.

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National Register of Historic Places in Curry County, New Mexico Neoclassical architecture in New Mexico Mission Revival architecture in New Mexico Government buildings completed in 1931 Clovis, New Mexico Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New Mexico {{NewMexico-NRHP-stub