Hill and Sycamore Sts., Globe, Arizona. County/parish: Gila.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 03, 1985. NRIS 85003106.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse-Globe Main, in Globe, Arizona, was built in 1926. Also known as Globe Post Office and Courthouse and as Globe Main Post Office, the building served historically as a courthouse of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, and as a post office and reflects Beaux Arts architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Its NRHP nomination asserts that it "is a particularly well executed example of federal design in the Neo-Classical style." Its construction was a local victory, an event "that symbolized the culmination of many years of effort in lobbying the federal government in order to secure their first and only federal building."
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75608153