The Milton Main Post Office is a historic post office building at 499 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts. The single-story granite building was built in 1936 out of locally quarried stone. The building is roofed in copper and has a wooden tower with louvered side panels and copper roofing. The interior public lobby has terrazzo marble flooring, and white marble wainscoting, with the walls above finished in plaster. The ceiling is ringed by an ornamental plaster cornice. One wall is decorated by a mural depicting scenes of the American Revolution painted by Elizabeth Tracy and funded by the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture, a Depression-era jobs program.[2]
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| Location | 499 Adams St., Milton, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°15′30″N 71°2′32.5″W / 42.25833°N 71.042361°W |
| Built | 1936 |
| Architect | Simon, Louis A. |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 86001213 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 30, 1986 |
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for United States Post Office-Milton Main". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-25.
