United States Post Office (Conway, South Carolina)

Conway Post Office is a historic post office building located at Conway in Horry County, South Carolina.[3] It was designed and built 1935–1936, and is one of a number of post offices in South Carolina designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under Louis A. Simon. The building is in the Classical Revival style and is a one-story brick building that features an off-center entrance with large fanlight above. It was the first Federal post office built in the city of Conway until it was replaced by a new federal post office in 1977. In 1981, the renovated building was reopened as the Horry County Museum, which in 2014 moved to a new location in the Burroughs School.[4][5]

Conway Post Office
Conway Post Office, June 2010
Location428 Main Street, Conway, South Carolina
Coordinates33°50′14.7″N 79°2′50.5″W
Area0.6 acres (0.24 ha)
Built1935
Architectural styleClassical Revival
MPSConway MRA
NRHP reference No.08000758[1][2]
Added to NRHPSeptember 2, 2009

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.[2]

In April 2017, the building will be the new home of the Conway Visitors Center and the offices for Conway Downtown Alive[6][7]

References
  1. "National Register of Historic Places". WEEKLY LIST OF ACTIONS TAKEN ON PROPERTIES: 8/31/09 THROUGH 9/04/09. National Park Service. 2009-09-11.
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  3. Ainuson, Kweku (June 19, 2008). "Conway Post Office" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
  4. "History". Horry County Museum. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  5. "South Carolina Department of Archives and History". National Register Properties in South Carolina: Conway Post Office, Horry County (428 Main St., Conway), including eight photos. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. 2010-06-21.
  6. kathy.ropp@myhorrynews.com, Kathy Ropp. "Conway residents say they want the old post office to become a meeting hall". MyHorryNews.com. Retrieved 2017-04-08.
  7. Alive, Conway Downtown. "Visitor Center". conwayalive.com. Retrieved 2017-04-08.


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