Chillicothe Post Office/Federal Building - Chillicothe Commercial Historic District - Chillicothe, Missouri - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

From Historic District Nomination form:

"450 Locust, the Chillicothe Post Office/Federal Building, (1916),1916. A three-story, seven-bay brick building with a hip roof and Beaux Arts detailing. The buff-colored brick walls are laid in a Flemish bond pattern. On the first floor of the facade, the two outer bays on the facade have 8/8 double hung windows with decorative stone lintels and dressed stone sills. The main entrance, which is located in the center bay of the facade, has a Palladian arched transom. The main entrance doors are not original. Each of the two bays that flank the entrance contain large, original, double hung windows with Palladian arch transoms. On the second floor of the facade, there are seven equally-spaced 8/8 double hung windows. In between each of the five central bays, there are carved stone medallions. A wide stone belt course runs between the second and third floors. On the third floor, the outer bays each contain an 8/8 double hung window and the five inner bays each contain two such windows. The secondary facade, which faces Clay Street, is three bays wide. The outer bays have one 8/8 window on each floor; the inner bay has three such windows. The windows in the easternmost bay have been bricked in to accommodate an elevator tower. Scrolled brackets support the wide overhang of the hipped roof. The roof is covered with Mediterranean-style red clay tiles."

The building served as Chillicothe's main post office and as a federal courthouse from its construction until 1965.  It was decommissioned as a federal building  in 1965.  It has served as the Livingston County Library since 1966.  The building is well maintained.