The Old Walnut Ridge Post Office is a historic commercial building at 225 West Main Street in

Walnut Ridge, Arkansas Walnut Ridge is a city in and the county seat of Lawrence County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 5,098 at the United States Census's 2019 estimate. Walnut Ridge lies immediately north of Hoxie. The two towns form a contiguous urban ...

. It is a -story T-shaped brick structure, five bays wide, with a side

gable roof A gable roof is a roof consisting of two sections whose upper horizontal edges meet to form its ridge. The most common roof shape in cold or temperate climates, it is constructed of rafters, roof trusses or purlins. The pitch of a gable roof c ...

and a full concrete basement. Its

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 ...

features include a centered entry, flanked by Ionic

pilaster In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an ext ...

s and topped by a broken gabled

pediment Pediments are a form of gable in classical architecture, usually of a triangular shape. Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the cornice (an elaborated lintel), or entablature if supported by columns.Summerson, 130 In an ...

. The remaining bays are filled with nine-over-nine sash windows. The eave is plain concrete, except for a course of

modillion A modillion is an ornate bracket, more horizontal in shape and less imposing than a corbel. They are often seen underneath a Cornice (architecture), cornice which helps to support them. Modillions are more elaborate than dentils (literally transl ...

s just below the roof line. The building was designed under Louis A. Simon of the

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and was completed in 1935. It served as a post office until 1977, and then served as the facilities of the local ''Times Dispatch'' newspaper. The building was listed on the

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in 1994.

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Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Colonial Revival architecture in Arkansas Commercial buildings completed in 1935 Buildings and structures in Lawrence County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Lawrence County, Arkansas {{LawrenceCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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