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The prominent location at the southeast corner of Twentieth and Post Office (Avenue E) Streets emphasizes its importance to Galveston's shipping-based economy. Nearly all the original decorative elements on the exterior of the building are cast iron including columns, cornices, balustrades, dentils, entablatures, and window architraves.
Constructed in 1937, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 as Galveston U.S. Post Office, Custom House and Courthouse, [1] the building is home a number of federal agencies, and at one point housed the Galveston Bureau of the National Weather Service.
Cast-Iron Architecture of Galveston, Texas; Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, California; Dorchester Academy, Midway, Georgia; Human Services Center, Yankton, South Dakota; Lana'i City, Maui, Hawaii; Memorial Bridge, Portsmouth, New Hampshire & Kittery, Maine (original closed and demolished in 2012; new bridge opened on same site in 2013)
Using slave labor and European craftsmen, Brown proceeded to build one of the first brick structures in Texas. [2] [4] The three-story house was built in Victorian Italianate style, with deep eaves, long windows and ornate verandas that were topped by lintels made of cast iron. The brick walls were made thirteen inches thick, to help protect ...
The elevator lobby also features terrazzo flooring and decorative cast-iron elevator enclosures. A marble staircase that connects the second and third levels has a scrolled, cast-iron balustrade that terminates in a floral-motif pilaster. [2] The postal workroom remains in its original location at the center of the postal lobby corridors.
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Skateboarding legends pay tribute to the iconic stairway of iconic stairways — a historic landmark where the evolution of the sport has come into view.
Location of Galveston County in Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Galveston County, Texas. There are 10 districts, 73 individual properties, and four former properties listed on the National Register in the county.