United States Post Office–Somerville Main
- Architects
- Louis A. Simon Ross Moffett Maurice Patrick Meade
- Year
- 1936
- Style
- Colonial Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
The US Post Office–Somerville Main, at 237 Washington Street in Union Square, Somerville, is a 2½-story Colonial Revival building constructed in 1935–36 as a Public Works Administration project during the Great Depression. It was designed under Louis A. Simon with Ross Moffett and Maurice Patrick Meade, and is built of steel framing clad in Flemish-bond brick with limestone trim.
the building
Lobby and entrance. The main entry has modern glass-and-aluminum doors beneath an extended round-arch fanlight window, with a small oriel window above in the gable. Inside, the lobby and its lower, one-half-floor vestibule are finished with multicolored marble floors and wainscoting, set off by stained-wood framing.
the style
The building is a Depression-era Colonial Revival design, its brick Flemish bond and limestone trim referencing Federal-period post offices while housing thoroughly modern steel-frame construction.
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