United States Post Office–Somerville Main

Somerville, United States

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The United States Post Office–Somerville Main, located at 237 Washington Street in Union Square, Somerville, Massachusetts, is a Colonial Revival structure completed in 1935–36 as part of a Public Works Administration project during the Great Depression. Designed by Maurice Patrick Meade, Ross Moffett, and Louis A. Simon, the two-and-a-half-story building features a steel frame clad in brick laid in Flemish bond with limestone trim, and is topped by a truncated hip roof. The five-bay façade includes a slightly projecting central section crowned by a gable, with a recessed main entry of modern glass-and-aluminum doors beneath an extended round-arch fanlight. The public lobby showcases multicolored marble floors and wainscoting, with a sunken vestibule framed in stained wood. Notably, the east lobby wall displays a mural titled *A Skirmish between British and Colonists near Somerville in Revolutionary Times*, painted by Ross Moffett in 1937 and commissioned by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts, commemorating Revolutionary War skirmishing in the area. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.