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     Hancock's fourth post office, the first to be built of brick, was completed in the Depression years of 1934-35.
     It was a U.S. Treasury Department Public Works Authority project with Louis A. Simon as the supervisory architect. The original blueprints called for a slate gable roof, an elaborate doorway with a broken scroll pediment and large, arched Palladian windows. However, as it neared completion, a flat roof, a simplified doorway and rectangular windows were substituted.
     On this site, a fire started in a saloon's defective stovepipe on April II, 1869. The resulting inferno, fanned by a west wind, destroyed three-fourths of the village.