Lincoln Park Post Office

The former Lincoln Park Post Office served as the post office for the city of Lincoln Park from its completion in 1939 until 1991. Its construction was a testament to the rapid growth of Lincoln Park over a period of less than twenty years from an unincorporated rural farming area, part of Ecorse Township, to an urbanized city with numerous industrial plants, including Henry Ford's huge Rouge plant, nearby. Its dedication, on August 5, 1939, was celebrated with a parade, Pony Express ride re-enactment, speeches by several officials including the district's U.S. Congressman, and a banquet. The building stands today as a well preserved representative example of the standard-design post office buildings constructed by the federal government in the 1930s.

The former Lincoln Park U.S. Post Office, currently the Lincoln Park Historical Museum, is a rectangular, one-story, flat roofed building designed in a modernized classical style. It stands on level, grassy property that contains several large locust trees along the east side. The Post Office is constructed using reinforced concrete and steel and is faced in buff-colored brick. It stands on a raised basement that, faced in limestone in coursed ashlar design topped by a sillcourse, entirely surrounds the building. Limestone is also employed in a stringcourse below the parapet wall and for the parapet cap. The front or Southfield Road fayade is symmetrical, containing a center entrance and two windows on each side. The five Southfield Road fayade openings are each emphasized by two slightly instepping vertical courses of header brick outlining the opening's vertical sides. In the outer two bays the vertical brickwork insteps rise from the sillcourse on either side of the window to support the ends of a plain limestone window lintel. The outer windows rise above limestone panels. In the center three bays the openings between the instepping brickwork are broader and higher, rising to the stringcourse beneath the parapet. The broader windows in the center bay on either side of the entrance are centered vertically between limestone panels at the top and bottom. The windows have recently been replaced with new glass and aluminum sashes, but the three-over-three configuration of the original windows has been replicated.