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	U.S. Post Office and Courthouse
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Virginia Landmarks Register
	C. Bascom Slemp Federal Building
Location	322 Wood Ave. E.; Big Stone Gap, Virginia
Coordinates	36°51′59″N 82°46′30″W / 36.86639°N 82.77500°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1911-1913
Architect	James Knox Taylor
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Second Renaissance Revival
NRHP reference No.	75002043
VLR No.	101-0004
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	December 23, 1975
Designated VLR	October 21, 1975

The C. Bascom Slemp Federal Building, also known as the Big Stone Gap Post Office and U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, is a historic courthouse and post office building located in Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia. It was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James Knox Taylor and built between 1911 and 1913. It is a three-story, seven-bay, stone building with a low hipped roof in the Second Renaissance Revival style. The front facade features a three-bay Tuscan order portico consisting of four pairs of coupled, unfluted columns.^[4] The building is named for Congressman C. Bascom Slemp.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Address based on USPS website. Accessed April 12, 2016.
^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (September 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: U.S. Post Office and Courthouse" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo