Downtown Boone Post Office (Designated Local Landmark, 2016)

Completed in 1939, the Downtown Boone Post Office was built using Works Progress Administration funds and designed by noted architect Louis A. Simon. The building retains many of its original lobby and post office design elements, as well as an outstanding 1940 WPA-funded lobby mural by Alan Tompkins—the only such mural to survive in NW North Carolina.

Downtown Boone Post Office 

Designation Report - Downtown Boone Post Office 

• Downtown Boone Post Office Local Landmark Designation Report

Blue Ridge Tourist Court and Motel (Designated Local Landmark, 2021)

The Blue Ridge Tourist Court and Motel is significant for its association with mid-century tourism and roadside lodging in Boone and Watauga County at the beginning of the region’s transformation into a tourist hub.  Of the several tourist court/motor court/motel operations built between 1945 and 1958 during the surge in post-World War II automobile tourism, the Blue Ridge Tourist Court and Motel is the last one within present-day Boone town limits to survive.

Blue Ridge Tourist Court and Motel

Designation Report - Blue Ridge Tourist Court and Motel 

• Blue Ridge Tourist Court and Motel Local Landmark Designation Report

New Local Historic Landmark Coming Soon