227/R365 - Clarksville Federal Building - Clarksville, Tennessee

The Federal Building in Clarksville has remained unchanged since its erection in 1897-98. It is of Victorian appearance, showing a mixture of architectural, styles including Queen Anne and the Stick Style. The building is unusually flamboyant in style for its size with its highly pitched roof with large eagles on the four corners, its steep gabled windows, and elaborate terra cotta ornamentation combining to give importance to a relatively small building. Additionally, there are a total of 20 dormers on the building, five on each side. The central gable dormer on each side has a curvilinear opening, and is flanked by hip roof dormers. All the dormers are surmounted by pinnacles, and there is a series of three stepped pinnacles on the angles of the roof line running up from each corner. Each corner is surmounted by an eagle on a pedestal. And an ornate tower is located on the apex of the roof.

As indicated above, a great attention to structural & decorative detail is evidenced in this small but unusual structure. Designed by U.S. Treasury Architect, William Martin Aiken, the building was constructed by Charles A. Moses of Chicago. His bid of $32,243 was the lowest of fourteen submitted. David A. Murphy, Superintendent of Construction of U.S. Public Buildings, supervised the construction. Ground was broken on September 1, 1897 and the building was completed the following year. Clarksville was able to obtain this building primarily because of the large volume of foreign mail occasioned by its tremendous tobacco business. The building was used as a post office until the 1930's. Since that time, it has served as offices of the Clarksville Electrical Department.

Due to the major significance of this Federal Building's unusual and distinctive architecture, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on June 13, 1972. All of the information above was gleaned from the original documents submitted to the NRHP for listing consideration and can be found here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/b960c919-20c8-4adf-a98...

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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.

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Taken in: United States / Tennessee / Clarksville (show map)

Taken on: August 15, 2013

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Camera: Nikon D5200, f/4.5, 21mm, ISO 250 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D5200
Aperture:	f/4.5
Focal Length:	21mm
ISO:	250
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
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