Post Office - Fulton, MO
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 38° 50.840 W 091° 56.939
15S E 591205 N 4300359
Post card of the Post Office when it still was a post office.
Waymark Code: WMX79C
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 12/07/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Outspoken1
Views: 1

County of building: Callaway County
Location of building: Nichols St & W. 5th St., Fulton
Built: 1899
Original Occupant: United States Post Office
Current occupant: Post Office Bar & Grill

"53. 100 W. 5th Street (U.S. Post Office), 1915. Designed by James A. Wetmore, this 1+ story building has Flemish bond brickwork and a truncated hipped roof. The façade has large, round arched windows with multi-paned windows. A molded limestone cornice circles three sides of the building. [C]

"This was the U.S. Post Office for over 80 years. There are still metal postal boxes on the West wall of the entrance hall and upper glass curved windows above what were the postal windows. The cornerstone reads: William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury; James A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect, 1915." ~ NRHP Nomination From

Physical Address:
100 W. 5th St., Fulton, MO 65251


Related Web Site: [Web Link]

Description of Postcard Location:
Looking SW from the NE corner of E. 5th St & Nichols St. The post card is from the 1940s, and shows the grass and trees, and the flog pole on the other side of the building than it is today.


Parking Coordinates: Not Listed

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