Old Post Office, St. Albans, West Virginia at Sixth Avenue and
Second Street, built by the US Treasury Department and completed in 1937.
The cornerstone names Treasury Secretary Morgenthau,
Postmaster General James Farley, Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon, Neil
A. Melick Supervising Engineer. A new post office was built in 1986 at 431
B Street and this building now houses an architectural engineering firm.
The wood relief sculpture "Science and Industry" by
Reuben R. Kramer (1941) was moved to the new post office. Photo:
Google Street View, July 2011.
References:
- National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, August 1994.