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The Post Office appeared on a 1951 map with an L-configuration, though a 1960 map shows an expansion of the building footprint. [1]: 17 The Barbara Jordan Post Office was closed on May 15, 2015. The post office employed over 2,000 workers who processed mail overnight.
Several United States post offices are individually notable and have operated under the authority of the United States Post Office Department (1792–1971) or the United States Postal Service (since 1971).
The building was originally constructed to house the federal district court, a post office, and other federal offices. The increasing number of federal offices in Houston necessitated the 1931 addition. The courthouse operated in the building until 1962, the same year that the post office vacated a portion of the space originally allocated to it.
The United States Postal Service previously operated a 16-acre (65,000 m 2) Houston Post Office at 401 Franklin Street. [127] The building, named after Barbara Jordan, was designed by the architects who designed the Houston Astrodome, opened in 1962 and received its current name in 1984. [128] When it was a post office it had mail sorting machines.
The Magnolia Hotel, formerly the Houston Post-Dispatch Building, located at 609 Fannin in Houston, Texas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 14, 2002. [ 2 ] History
Some Houston Post articles had been made available in the archives of the Houston Chronicle website, but by 2005 they were removed. The Houston Chronicle online editor Mike Read said that the Houston Chronicle decided to remove Houston Post articles from the website after the 2001 United States Supreme Court New York Times Co. v. Tasini decision; the newspaper originally planned to filter ...
Park Place is a subdivision located in Houston, Texas, United States. Park Place is located outside of the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8 in southeast Houston, near William P. Hobby Airport . Journalist John Nova Lomax described Park Place in a 2008 Houston Press article as "old, but not as tired as it looked a few years ago" as Park Place had ...
A post office operated in Aldine from 1896 to 1935; after 1935, mail was delivered from Houston. In 1914 Aldine included two general stores, a fig preserver, and several poultry breeders and several dairymen. The population briefly reached 100 in 1925. In the 1930s and 1940s the population decreased to between thirty and forty residents.