Location Information
(for the U.S. Post Office)
Name:U.S. Post Office
Address:310 (306) Summit Street
City/County:Winona, Montgomery County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1932
Architectural Styles(s):Colonial Revival
No. of Stories:1
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:07 Apr 1981
NR District Name:Winona (2015)
    NR Status:Previously Listed
    Element No.:504
    MPS:U.S. Post Offices, 1931-1941
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Local Designation Information
Local District Name:Winona Historic District
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Context/Comments
Built in 1932, the post office building in Winona was one of four post offices in Mississippi (along with the post offices in Columbia, Kosciusko, and Lumberton) that were constructed under the Public Building Act of 1926. It was designed and built under the administration of James A. Wetmore (1863-1940), Acting Supervising Architect of the Treasury from 1915 to 1933. It is a well-detailed Colonial Revival brick building with a projecting distyle-in-antis portico, and retains a high degree of integrity throughout. Nobly proportioned and carefully detailed, the portico produces a refined monumentality which is unequaled elsewhere in Winona.

This building has the same design as the post office buildings in Sandersville, Georgia; Toccoa, Georgia; Prestonsburg, Kentucky; Unionville, Missouri; and Manassas, Virginia.

This building was individually listed on the National Register on 7 April 1981, as a component of the "U.S. Post Offices, 1931-1941" thematic group nomination. It was later included as a previously-listed element (element #504) in the Winona Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 1 June 2015.
Brief Description
One-and-a-half story, cast stone and common bond brick, Colonial Revival Post Office with centered portico and a polychromatic tile mansard roof with inset wooden casement dormers. The facade is three-bays (W, W; D-paired; W, W) with an entry porch supported by brick side walls and two Corinthian columns. The entrance stairs are flanked by cast stone cheek walls topped by cast iron lampposts. The foundation is cast stone. The cornice is accentuated with cast-stone dentils and topped by a brick parapet. The windows are 12/ 12 wood sash with extended stone sills and keystone lintels. The entrance is composed of fifteen-pane French doors with a large single- pane transom flanked by two pilasters and crowned by a dentilated cornice.