The Lincoln Park Post Office is a post office located at 1335 Southfield Road in Lincoln Park, Michigan

Lincoln Park, Michigan

Lincoln Park is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It lies in an area of cities and communities known as Downriver. The population was 38,144 at the 2010 census . The settlement was organized as a village in 1921, and reorganized as a city in 1925. The area was originally home to...

. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 2004.

History

The building was constructed by the Henry Dattner Co., for a final cost of $80,000. The design of this building, created by supervising architect of the treasury Louis A. Simon

Louis A. Simon

Louis A. Simon was an American architect.Simon was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following a tour of Europe, he opened an architectural office in Baltimore, Maryland in 1894....

, was used for a number of other post offices in the state of Michigan. The Lincoln Park Post Office was dedicated on August 5, 1939.

The building is now the home of the Lincoln Park Historical Museum.

Description

The Lincoln Park Post Office is a one-story building built of tan brick. Stone carvings over the entryway represent three modes of mail transportation: air, rail, and ship. The lobby originally housed a mural, Hauling in the Nets, by Zoltan Sepeshy. The mural is now located in the Marine Museum on Beaver Island

Beaver Island

Beaver Island may refer to:In Canada:*Beaver Island an island in the North Channel of Lake Huron*Beaver Island an island in Lake Temagami, Ontario...

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External links

• Lincoln Park Historical Society