The U.S. Post Office on Rosa Parks Boulevard was renamed to honor the late Sen. Thelma Harper, D-Nashville. Harper was the first African American woman to serve in the Tennessee Senate as well as the longest-serving female senator.
‘I can’t imagine the Arcade without the Post Office’: After a century, Arcade customers need to find new mailboxes
For over 100 years, downtown Nashvillians have depended on the centerpiece of the Nashville Arcade: the post office. But, the century-old institution has shut its doors.