Salvo Post Office

Historic post office in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Salvo Post Office
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Salvo Post Office, September 2013
35°32′24″N 75°28′27″W / 35.54000°N 75.47417°W / 35.54000; -75.47417
Area	less than one acre
Built	c. 1910 (1910)
Built by	Lafayette Douglas
NRHP reference No.	93000997^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 23, 1993

The Salvo Post Office is a historic post office building located at Salvo, in Dare County, North Carolina, on the Outer Banks. It was built about 1910, and is a small frame building measuring 8 feet by 12 feet (about 2.4 by 3.6 meters). The interior consists of the post office lobby and the postmaster's workroom. It reflects a unique tradition of a portable building being purchased by succeeding postmasters and moved to their respective properties. It is recognized by the U.S. Postal Service as the second-smallest post office building in the nation, after the Ochopee Post Office in Florida. The building was restored after being damaged by fire in October 1992.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ W. Reid Thomas (May 1993). "Salvo Post Office" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.