- City:
- Ripley, WV
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Federal Facilities, Post Offices
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal & Military Operations, Treasury Department
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
New Deal post office with the standard cornerstone, erected in 1940.
According to a National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, the structure was built circa 1940. “One-story, side gable, post office building with engaged, end chimneys. There are three, one-story, flat roof additions on the rear; the one on the rear is a loading dock. Asphalt shingle roof. Partial return cornice. Dentiled cornice with plain frieze. Red brick façade. Double central entrance doors flanked by a pair of 12/12 windows with concrete sills. Entrance door has undivided transom and decorative surround with fluted pilasters with caps and plinth block with a dentiled hood above with metopes. Concrete foundation. 5 bays wide. Colonial Revival style.”
Source notes
Ripley Historic District, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, 2004, accessed June 14, 2018.
Site originally submitted by The Living New Deal on August 9, 2012.
Additional contributions by Ernest Everett Blevins, 2018.
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