14 February 2012

They sure don't build post offices like they used to


This was the post office for Saginaw, Michigan, in 1905 (currently repurposed as the Castle Museum).  Click for bigger and bigger.

Via Shorpy, where you can view the image at wallpaper size.

4 comments:

  1. ha! the lady in front... how charming real ladies were those days
    + the architect certainly loved the Loire castles in France...
    peter/belgium

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    1. It's too bad that her elegance (and that of the post office) is juxtaposed to piles of horse poop in the intersection. But that's the way life was in those days.

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  2. Maybe not quite as impressive but still, but this is the main hall of the last Dutch (autonomic) postoffice, in Utrecht: http://www.elsbethschrijft.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/full-11.jpg
    Remco, Netherlands

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