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The Old Post Office Building's 315-foot (96 m) clock tower is the third-highest building in Washington, after the Washington Monument and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. [205] The tower's 270-foot-high (82 m) observation deck offers panoramic views of the city and its surroundings.
A major renovation from 1929 to 1935 expanded the building for increased mail processing and service capacity. [2] By the 1950s, renovations had removed many of the Beaux-Arts features of the building. The main hall and lobby area only showed traces of their former grandiose design with modernist elements replacing the Beaux-Arts style.
Youngwoo announced plans to turn the Bronx General Post Office into a marketplace, [168] [169] and it submitted plans for the building to the New York City Department of Buildings in December 2014. [170] Under Youngwoo's plan, the building would retain a small post office.
It was built between 1935 and 1937, and designed by consulting architect Carroll H. Pratt (1874-1958) for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury. It is a one-story brick building in the Colonial Revival style, with a three-bay-wide projecting entrance pavilion.
United States Court House and Post Office Building (currently known as the Robert N. C. Nix Sr. Federal Building), in Philadelphia, listed on the NRHP in Philadelphia County Allegheny Post Office , Pittsburgh, listed on the NRHP in Allegheny County and now part of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
U.S. Senator James McMillan, who led the commission that authored the McMillan Plan, published in 1902, which provided guidance for the development of Washington, D.C. A 1923 photograph of Federal Triangle, including Pennsylvania Avenue (on left), the District Building (in foreground), the Post Office building, and Center Market (in background)
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The former post office building is similar in design to the Municipal Court Building across the Des Moines River, which was designed and built at the same time. [2] Both the original building and the 1935 addition are steel frame structures faced with limestone and built on a granite base.