Historic Place

Post Office Building

Greenville · Hunt County · Dedicated 1974 · THC Atlas #2074002081

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Marker Inscription

Military, Architecture

About this site

Post Office Building is a historic place in Greenville, Hunt County, dedicated in 1974. It is one of 6 historic places documented in Hunt County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 92 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 33.1401, -96.1107 near Greenville. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Old Greenville Post Office (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Central Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Katy Depot, and First Baptist Church.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2074002081. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

The Post Office Building in Greenville is a one-story Neoclassical Revival structure built in 1910 under U.S. Treasury Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor, faced in white limestone and red brick with arched stone openings and a mansard roof. Regarded as Greenville's first monumental public building, it is also remembered as the place where Audie Murphy enlisted in the U.S. Army on June 20, 1942. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org hmdb.org

📍 33.1401, -96.1107 · Greenville, Hunt County

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