Vicksburg Post Office & Customs House -- Uptown Vicksburg Historic District -- Vicksburg MS
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The Vicksburg Post Office & Customs House is a contributing building in the US National Register Uptown Vicksburg Historic District in downtown Vicksburg MS.
Waymark Code: WMMK66
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 10/01/2014
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The Uptown Vicksburg Historic District is comprised of 86 contributing buildings within a rectangular district in downtown Vicksburg roughly bounded by Washington Street on the west, South Street on the south, Locust Street on the east, and Clay Street on the north. The Uptown Vicksburg Historic District was listed on the US National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History website, the listing for the Vicksburg Post Office & Customs House as a contributing building in the Uptown Vicksburg Historic District: (
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“62. C 1400. Vicksburg Post Office and Customs House (Mississippi River Commission).
A three-story brick Romanesque Revival governmental building, facing east, with a slate gable roof with cross hips and gables. An eight-sided tower surmounts the roof at the northeast corner and is topped with a conical roof. The structure exhibits lavish attention to detail and an outstanding precision of workmanship as exhibited in the high relief terra-cotta panels, round windows with radiating voussoirs, elaborately molded parapet and raking cornice. 1894."