Located in the heart of the Georgia Avenue commercial district, the historic Silver Spring Post Office was built from 1936 to 1937 by the United States Treasury Department.
The site formerly served as a single-family home known as The Elms, according to The Historical Marker Database. Originally built in 1897, the wood-frame house was occupied by Gist Blair, Silver Spring’s first postmaster, from 1899 to 1906. It then became the home of the town’s second postmaster, Frank L. Hewitt, and his family in the 1920s.
Though it’s not the first post office in Silver Spring, this Colonial Revival-style structure is the first federal building in Montgomery County. The U.S. Postal Service sold the building in 1981, and it is now privately owned.
A New Deal-era mural titled “The Old Tavern,” originally installed in the post office, is now on display at the Silver Spring public library.
