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Several United States post offices are individually notable and have operated under the authority of the United States Post Office Department (1792–1971) or the United States Postal Service (since 1971).
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The town was laid out with 40 lots along the railroad tracks in 1871. [3] It was named for Mary Kimberlain, a local resident. [4]The town suffered severe damage due to an EF-4 tornado on March 2, 2012.
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The final cost, however, reached nearly $2,000,000.) Begun in 1902 and completed in 1905, the new federal building was massive. Accommodating 925 federal employees, the U-shaped Beaux-Arts structure occupied an entire block, rose four stories, and housed federal courts, offices, and the main post office.
In 2000, the building was named to honor E. Ross Adair, a Republican congressman from Indiana's Fourth District. Adair, who was born in Fort Wayne in 1907 and died there in 1983, served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was ambassador to Ethiopia from 1971-1974.
The community has had two post offices. The first one ran from 1878 to 1881, [4] and the second one ran from 1914 to 1970. [5] Nabb was hit by an EF4 tornado on March 2, 2012. [6] The tornado came from Marysville, five miles to the east, and proceeded toward Chelsea.
The three-story Art Deco-style post office was built 1934 to the designs of Terre Haute–based architects Miller & Yeager for the cost of around $450,000. [2] Completed on December 1, 1934, the building opened to the public in 1935. It originally was home to the post office, the Social Security Administration, the Federal Bureau of ...