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In 1291, he received a licence from the King to strengthen his manor house with a stone wall and to crenellate the property which subsequently became known as Stokesay Castle. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] By the 1290s, Ludlow was leading a consortium of the most powerful English wool merchants and in 1294, was responsible for the introduction of an export duty ...
52.364°N 2.690°W. / 52.364; -2.690. Sheet (or "The Sheet") is a small modern village in the parish of Ludford about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the town centre of Ludlow, Shropshire . It was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. [1] It was part of the Saxon hundred of Culvestan, which ended in the reign of Henry I, and thereafter Sheet belonged to ...
June 14, 1979. Designated CP. March 24, 2017. The U.S. Post Office, Courthouse, and Customhouse, also known as Main Post Office and the Wilmington Trust Headquarters, is a historic post office, courthouse, and custom house, located on Rodney Square in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was designed by Irwin & Leighton in 1933–1935 ...
Postal system executive. Postmaster General. The United States Post Office Department (USPOD; also known as the Post Office or U.S. Mail) was the predecessor of the United States Postal Service, established in 1792. From 1872 to 1971, it was officially in the form of a Cabinet department. It was headed by the postmaster general.
Added to NRHP. March 20, 1973 [2] The Old Customs House, also called the Old Post Office, is a historic building located at the corner of Clinch Avenue and Market Street in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Completed in 1874, it was the city's first federal building. It housed the federal courts, excise offices and post office until 1933.
May 23, 1986. The US Post Office-Quincy Main is a historic post office at 47 Washington Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is a Classical Revival structure, two stories tall, built in 1909 out of limestone. It has corner pilasters, and a central entry section that projects slightly, also with articulating pilasters, and three recessed entryways.
The Joel W. Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse was constructed in 1932–1933 as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. Designed jointly by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon and Reuben Harrison Hunt (1862–1937), it was Hunt's last major work, coming at the end of a career that spanned more than five decades.
The United States Custom House and Post Office in Cincinnati, Ohio, served as the main federal presence in that city from its construction, completed in 1885, until its demolition in 1936, to make way for a successor building. It was the location of the United States Custom House, and the United States District Court for the Southern District ...