Old Post Office - Main Street Historic District - Chappell Hill, TX
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N 30° 08.513 W 096° 15.434
14R E 764206 N 3337684
Constructed in 1912 and forming part of a "3 buildings in a row" series, the building served as the Chappell Hill, TX Post Office from 1915 to 1968. As of late 2014, it was undergoing repairs and renovations so it can be used as a storefront.
Waymark Code: WMN6CR
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/03/2015
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Chappell Hill's NRHP Main Street Historic District is an area covering 36 buildings, most of them built between 1850 and 1915 and reflecting the many variations in architectural style within that period in history. For more information on this particular Historic District, please see the following waymark: (
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The founding of the town of Chappell Hill is contributed to Mary Hargrove Haller who purchased a 100-acre site in this part of Texas on February 2, 1847 and subsequently commissioned a survey and the plotting of town lots. Just three years later, Mary Haller and her husband Jacob began building a two-story frame house now known as the "Stagecoach Inn" at the northwest corner of the center of that new town.
The old Post Office, located two blocks South of the "Stagecoach Inn", was built in 1912 and is thus considered to be a "latter era" structure within the overall 1850-1915 time period. It shares the same street "block" with the 1911
Campbell S&B Drug Store and the 1865
J. P. Perkins Drug Store, both of which are also contributing buildings within the District. This place served as the town's local post office from 1915 to 1968, which has now been moved just two buildings further South: (
visit link) .
As of late 2014, the building was undergoing careful and meticulous renovations -- ensuring the authenticity of the original structure was being maintained -- in order to be opened as a retail store. Per the
Texas Historical Commission Atlas records, the structure includes the following features:
"Single-story masonry structure is the third in a series of three row buildings. It also contains continuous scalloped awning with cedar shingles and wooden posts. Front facade features single entrance door with large glass panel and a glass storefront with flat-arch transom (obscured with wood). Interior pressed-metal ceiling. Served as local post office from 1915 to 1968. Post office boxes now housed in museum."