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List of United States post offices in Mississippi

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United States post offices operate under the authority of the United States Post Office Department (1792–1971) or the United States Postal Service (since 1971). Historically, post offices were usually placed in a prominent location. Many were architecturally distinctive, including notable buildings featuring Beaux-Arts, Art Deco, and Vernacular architecture.[1][2] However, modern U.S. post offices were generally designed for functionality rather than architectural style.[2]

Following is a list of United States post offices in Mississippi. Notable post offices include individual buildings, whether still in service or not, which have architectural, historical, or community-related significance. Many of these are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) or state and local historic registers. There is also a NRHP thematic listing, "Mississippi Post Offices 1931-1941 TR".[3]

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Post office City Date built Image Architect Notes Ref.
United States Courthouse and Post Office (Aberdeen, Mississippi) Aberdeen 1885 William Alfred Freret and Mifflin E. Bell [a] [4]
United States Post Office-Amory Amory 1939 Louis A. Simon [b][a][c] [5][6][7]
United States Post Office (Batesville, Mississippi) Batesville 1940 Louis A. Simon, Neal A. Melick [d][e][c] [8]
United States Post Office (Bay St. Louis, Mississippi) Bay St. Louis 1935–1936 Louis A. Simon [d][e][c][f] [9][10]
United States Post Office (Belzoni, Mississippi) Belzoni 1937–1938 Louis A. Simon [c][g] [11][12]
United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Customhouse, now Biloxi City Hall Biloxi 1908 James Knox Taylor [e][a][c] [13]
United States Post Office (Booneville, Mississippi), now Chancery Clerk's Office Booneville 1939 Leroy Barton [h][e][c] [14]
United States Post Office (Brookhaven, Mississippi) Brookhaven 1912 James Knox Taylor, Louis A. Simon [a] [15][16]
United States Post Office (Carthage, Mississippi) Carthage 1939 Shelby Olvy Yarborough [i][a][c] [17][18][19]
United States Post Office (Charleston, Mississippi) Charleston 1938–1939 Louis A. Simon [c] [20][21]
United States Post Office (Cleveland, Mississippi), now the Cleveland Police Department Cleveland 1933–1934 James A. Wetmore, Louis A. Simon [e][a][c] [22][23][24]
United States Post Office (Columbia, Mississippi) Columbia 1931 Shourds & Bean [a][c] [25]
United States Post Office (Columbus, Mississippi), now Downtown Station Post Office Columbus 1939 R. Stanley Brown, Murphy Pound [j][a][c] [26][27]
Old United States Post Office (Corinth, Mississippi) Corinth 1913 James Knox Taylor [a][e] [28][29]
United States Post Office (Crystal Springs, Mississippi) Crystal Springs 1940–1941 Louis A. Simon [k][a][c] [30][31]
United States Post Office (Durant, Mississippi) Durant 1939–1940 Louis A. Simon [l][c][m] [32][33]
United States Post Office (Eupora, Mississippi) Eupora 1940–1941 Louis A. Simon [n][o][c] [34][35]
United States Post Office (Forest, Mississippi) Forest 1938–1939 Louis A. Simon [p][a][c][q] [36][37][38]
Old United States Post Office (Greenwood, Mississippi), now Greenwood Public Schools Administration Building Greenwood 1911–1914 James Knox Taylor, Oscar Wenderoth [e][r][s] [39][40]
Old United States Post Office (Grenada, Mississippi) Grenada 1914–1915 Oscar Wenderoth [a][e] [41][42]
United States Post Office and Customhouse (Gulfport, Mississippi) Gulfport 1910 James Knox Taylor [a] [43]
United States Post Office (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) Hattiesburg 1934 Juan G. Landry, Rathbone DeBuys [a][c] [44][45]
United States Post Office (Hazlehurst, Mississippi) Hazlehurst 1938 Louis A. Simon, Neal A. Melick [a][c][t] [46][47]
United States Post Office (Houston, Mississippi) Houston 1939 Louis A. Simon, Neal A. Melick [c][u] [48]
United States Post Office (Indianola, Mississippi) Indianola 1935 Louis A. Simon, Neal A. Melick [v][c] [49]
United States Courthouse and Post Office, Jackson, Mississippi Jackson 1884–1885, 1900 Mifflin E. Bell, James Knox Taylor [w] [50]
United States Post Office and Courthouse, now James O. Eastland Federal Courthouse Jackson 1933–1934 James A. Wetmore, Hull & Malvaney [e][x] [51][52]
Old U.S. Post Office (Kosciusko, Mississippi), now Kosciusko City Hall Kosciusko 1932 James A. Wetmore [r][c][y] [53]
United States Post Office (Leland, Mississippi) Leland 1938 Louis A. Simon, Neal A. Melick [a][c][z] [54][55]
United States Post Office (Lexington, Mississippi) Lexington 1937 Louis A. Simon [c] [56][57]
United States Post Office (Louisville, Mississippi) Louisville 1935 Louis A. Simon [c][aa][ab] [58][59]
United States Post Office (Lumberton, Mississippi) Lumberton 1932 Algernon Blair-Montgomery [a][c] [60]
United States Post Office (Macon, Mississippi) Macon 1941 Louis A. Simon [ac][c] [61][62]
United States Post Office (Magnolia, Mississippi) Magnolia 1936–1937 Louis A. Simon, Neal A. Melick [a][ad][c] [63][64]
Old United States Post Office (McComb, Mississippi), later McComb Public Library McComb 1917–1918 James A. Wetmore [r][e][ae] [65]
United States Post Office and Courthouse (Meridian, Mississippi) Meridan 1931–1933 P. J. Krouse and Frank Fort, James A. Wetmore [a] [66]
Old U.S. Post Office (Natchez, Mississippi), now Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture Natchez 1905 James Knox Taylor [r][af][e] [67]
United States Post Office (New Albany, Mississippi), now Union County Development Association Building New Albany 1936 Louis A. Simon, Neal A. Melick [e][ag][c] [68]
United States Post Office (Newton, Mississippi) Newton 1936 Louis A. Simon, Neal A. Melick [ah][c] [69]
United States Post Office (Okolona, Mississippi) Okolona 1937 Louis A. Simon, Neal A. Melick [ai][c] [70]
United States Post Office and Federal Building, now Oxford City Hall Oxford 1883–1886 Mifflin E. Bell [e][aj] [71][72]
Old United States Post Office (Philadelphia, Mississippi), now Philadelphia Police Department Philadelphia 1933–1935 Louis A. Simon, Neal A. Melick [e][a][c] [73][74]
United States Post Office (Picayune, Mississippi) Picayune 1937–1937 Louis A. Simon [ak][c] [75][76]
United States Post Office (Pontoto, Mississippi) Pontotoc 1933 Louis A. Simon [c][al][am] [77][78]
United States Post Office (Poplarville, Mississippi) Poplarville 1941 Louis A. Simon [c] [79][80]
Old U.S. Post Office (Ripley, Mississippi) Ripley 1938 Louis A. Simon [e][an][a][c] [81][82][83]
United States Post Office (Starkville, Mississippi) Starkville 1935 Louis A. Simon [e] [84][85]
United States Post Office (Tylertown, Mississippi) Tylertown 1940 Louis A. Simon, Neal A. Melick [ao][c] [86]
United States Post Office (Waynesboro, Mississippi) Waynesboro 1939 Louis A. Simon [ap][c] [87][88]
United States Post Office (Water Valley, Mississippi) Water Valley 1925 James A. Wetmore [a] [89]
Old United States Post Office (West Point, Mississippi), now West Point Water and Light West Point 1910 James Knox Taylor [r][e][aq][ar] [90]
United States Post Office (Winona, Mississippi) Winona 1932 James A. Wetmore [a][c] [91][92]
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Notes

  1. [a]
    Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
  2. [b]
    Houses a New Deal mural, Amory, Mississippi...1889 by John McCrady.
  3. [c]
    A contributing structure to the National Register of Historic Places "Mississippi Post Offices 1931-1941 Thematic Resources".
  4. [d]
    Originally housed a New Deal artwork, which has been relocated.
  5. [e]
    No longer used as a post office.
  6. [f]
    Contributing structure to the Old Bay St. Louis Historic District.
  7. [g]
    Built using a standardized architectural design also used for post offices in Hodgenville, Kentucky; Wareham, Massachusetts; Delhi, New York; and Emporia, Virginia.
  8. [h]
    Houses a New Deal mural, Scenic and Historic Booneville by Stefan Hirsch.
  9. [i]
    Houses a New Deal wood sculpture, Lumbermen Rolling a Log, by Peter Dalton.
  10. [j]
    Houses a New Deal mural, Out of the Soil, by Beulah Bettersworth.
  11. [k]
    Houses a New Deal mural, Harvest, by Henry L. Cagnina.
  12. [l]
    Houses the New Deal mural Erosion, Reclamation, and Conservation of the Soil by Isidore Teberoff.
  13. [m]
    Has the same design as the post office in Leland, Mississippi.
  14. [n]
    Houses a New Deal artwork, Cotton Farm, by Tom Savage.
  15. [o]
    Contributing structure to the Eupora Historic District.
  16. [p]
    Houses the New Deal mural Forest Loggers by Julien Binford.
  17. [q]
    Was built using a standardized design also used for the Crystal Springs and Hazlehurst, Mississippi post offices.
  18. [r]
    Designated a Mississippi Landmark.
  19. [s]
    Contributing structure to the Downtown Greenwood Historic District and the Central Commercial and Railroad Historic District.
  20. [t]
    Houses the New Deal mural, Life in Mississippi Cotton Belt by Auriel Bessemer.
  21. [u]
    Houses the New Deal mural Post Near Houston, Natchez Trace, 1803 by Byron Burford Jr.
  22. [v]
    Originally housed a New Deal mural White Gold in the Delta by Beulah Bettersworth, which was destroyed in the 1960s.
  23. [w]
    Demolished for the construction of the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, now James O. Eastland Federal Courthouse, in 1933.
  24. [x]
    Contributing structure to the Smith Park Architectural District.
  25. [y]
    Has the same design as the U.S. Post Office in Cheboygan, Michigan.
  26. [z]
    Houses the New Deal mural Ginnin' Cotton by Stuart R. Purser.
  27. [aa]
    Houses the New Deal mural Crossroads, Mississippi by Karl Wolfe.
  28. [ab]
    Contributing structure in the Downtown Louisville Historic District (Mississippi).
  29. [ac]
    Houses a New Deal mural, Signing of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit, by Douglas Crockwell.
  30. [ad]
    Houses the New Deal murals Magnolia, 1880, Cotton Harvest, and July 4th Celebration by John H. Fyfe.
  31. [ae]
    Constructed from a standardized architectural plan, also used in Mena, Arkansas; Fort Morgan, Colorado; Bartow, Florida; Lakeland, Florida; Barnesville, Georgia; Hiawatha, Kansas; Hammond, Louisiana; Beeville, Texas; and Pulaski, Virginia.
  32. [af]
    Contributing structure to the Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District.
  33. [ag]
    House the New Deal mural Milking Time by Robert Cleaver Purdy.
  34. [ah]
    Houses the New Deal mural, Economic Life in Newton in Early '40's by Mary Boggs and Franklin Boggs.
  35. [ai]
    Originally housed the now destroyed New Deal mural The Richness of the Soil, by Harold Egan.
  36. [aj]
    Contributing structure to the Oxford Courthouse Square Historic District.
  37. [ak]
    Houses the New Deal mural, Lumber Region of Mississippi by Donald H. Robertson.
  38. [al]
    Houses a New Deal mural by Joseph Pollet.
  39. [am]
    Contributing structure to the Pontotoc Historic District.
  40. [an]
    Originally housed New Deal bas relief sculpture Development of the Postal Service by George Aarons, which were later movedto the new post office building.
  41. [ao]
    Houses the New Deal mural Rural Mississippi–From Early Days to Present by Lucile Blanch.
  42. [ap]
    Houses the New Deal mural Waynesboro Landscape by Ross E. Braught.
  43. [aq]
    Contributing structure of the NRHP's West Point Central City Historic District.
  44. [ar]
    Constructed using a standardized architectural plan that was also used in Greenville, Mississippi (now demolished); Palatka, Florida; Arkansas City, Kansas; Chanute, Kansas; and High Point, North Carolina.

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