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A few weeks ago, I featured this former post office, now a seafood restaurant, in the small North Carolina town of Pittsboro (image from the restaurant’s Facebook page):
I noted that while I’ve seen post offices in pre-existing buildings, I haven’t really seen old post offices turned into other types of businesses. (Not grand old post offices, but small ones or typical suburban-era ones like this.) Several readers, however, had seen such conversions, and left comments identifying former post office buildings with new lives. So for this piece I’m rounding up a few other used-to-be-a-post-offices! Bethesda, Maryland An intermediate post office in Bethesda (not the old one, not the current one) became a Buddhist temple and monastery after a new facility supplanted the old structure.
From the temple’s website:
Isn’t that a great ethic to live by? Plymouth, Michigan Now a specialty food market, Plymouth’s old post office is still readily identifiable:
From a local news article:
Buildings that retain their old character while welcoming new uses are always cool! Paintsville, Kentucky The old post office in Paintsville is now a gorgeous private mansion, with much of its post office paraphernalia intact! This heavily illustrated article details the domestic makeover:
Here’s the building:
Pennington, New Jersey I actually know Pennington and have driven through or stopped many times—I grew up about 20 minutes away! One of my most-read pieces was about a little old shopping center with a motel and petting zoo on the highway outside of town here. Pennington’s older post office (not its very original one, which was apparently torn down), is this structure, now a hair salon. The newer, larger facility was opened in 1995. The linked article notes one of the reasons for relocating: parking.
Fonda, New York A reader who grew up in the tiny town of Fonda (population, less than 800) found this old property listing for the town’s tiny old post office (it has a new one now, too.) It was a small laundromat for awhile, but now appears vacant.
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