Lebanon Post Office

The congressman who found the money later won a Nobel Prize. Cordell Hull, a Cumberland University graduate, secured the funds for this building while representing the district, and went on to serve as Secretary of State and to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The post office stands inside the Lebanon Commercial Historic District, ten acres around the public square, with 43 contributing buildings, listed on the National Register in 1999. The district is considered an excellent example of a late nineteenth and early twentieth century commercial center.

What the plaque says

Lebanon Post Office In July 1908 Lebanon's growth and prominence qualified the town for free citywide mail delivery. Congressman Cordell Hull secured funding of $50,000 for this federal post office building. The cornerstone was laid on October 30, 1913. Chief Supervising Architect Oscar Wenderoth designed the Beaux Arts style building and contractor James Corse completed construction in 1915. Pink and gray East Tennessee Marble adorns the interior walls and floors. In 1999 the National Park Service placed the Lebanon Post Office in the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing structure in the Lebanon Commercial Historic District.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wynnewood State Historic Site — 13 mi
  A National Historic Landmark log inn at the Bledsoe's Lick springs, beside a Mississippian mound center and tied to the domestic slave trade.
• Andrew Jackson's Hermitage — 18 mi
  Andrew Jackson's cotton plantation east of Nashville, where visitors can walk to the quarters, Alfred's Cabin and the Enslaved Cemetery as well as the mansion.
• Stones River National Battlefield — 24 mi
  The Murfreesboro battlefield of December 1862, with a national cemetery built by Black soldiers, a Trail of Tears route and the story of the freedmen's settlement called Cemetery.
• Red Boiling Springs — 33 mi
  A Macon County spa town built around red sulphur springs, with five kinds of mineral water, red-painted pumps and the surviving hotels of a resort that once held more than a dozen.

More markers nearby

• Pickett Chapel / Civil Rights — steps away
• Battle of Lebanon — steps away
• Wilson County Courthouses — steps away
• Wilson County Training School — 0.3 mi