New Bern Municipal Building


New Bern Municipal Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New Bern Municipal Building, April 2010
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Location	Pollock and Craven Sts., New Bern, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°6′25″N 77°2′19″W / 35.10694°N 77.03861°W / 35.10694; -77.03861Coordinates: 35°6′25″N 77°2′19″W / 35.10694°N 77.03861°W / 35.10694; -77.03861
Area	0.8 acres (0.32 ha)
Built	1897 (1897)
Architect	Kemper, Charles E.; Aiken, William Martin
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP Reference #	73001326^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 4, 1973

New Bern Municipal Building, also known as the United States Post Office, is a historic municipal building located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built in 1897, and is a 3 1/2-story, brick and granite building with a 2 1/2-story wing in the Romanesque Revival style. The building has hipped roofs with dormers. It features a bulky outsized square clock tower with a pyramidal roof. It was constructed under the direction of the Office of the Supervising Architect to serve as a United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Customs House. It became the municipal building in 1936.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Survey Planning Unit Staff (April 1972). "New Bern Municipal Building" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

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