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  2. Old Chicago Main Post Office - Wikipedia

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    The Old Chicago Main Post Office is a nine-story-tall office building in downtown Chicago.The building was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and built in 1921. The structure of the building was expanded greatly in 1932 in order to serve Chicago's great volume of postal business, increased significantly by the mail-order businesses of Montgomery Ward (the largest retailer in the ...

  3. Old Chicago Main Post Office Twin Towers - Wikipedia

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    The Old Chicago Main Post Office Twin Towers was a proposed mixed use supertall skyscraper planned as part of the canceled Old Chicago Main Post Office Redevelopment project in the Chicago Loop community area. The 120-story twin towers were planned to reach a height of 2,000 feet (610 m), the same as the cancelled Chicago Spire that began ...

  4. Architecture of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    1921 Old Chicago Main Post Office, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White 1922 Tribune Tower , neo-Gothic , John Mead Howells and Raymond M. Hood Tribune Tower (1922) 1924 Soldier Field , Holabird & Roche ; extensive renovation 2003, Ben Wood and Carlos Zapata

  5. Old Post Office (Washington, D.C.) - Wikipedia

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    The Old Post Office, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Old Post Office and Clock Tower, is located at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. in Washington, D.C. It is a contributing property to the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site. [1] The building's 315-foot (96-meter) high clock tower houses the "Bells of Congress ...

  6. Fascinating Photos of Old-School American Post Offices

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    Turns out the states had separate post offices until 1892, when the first joint post office was built on the state line. The current structure, completed in 1933, features Texas pink granite and ...

  7. List of postmasters of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    A a post office was first established in Chicago on March 8, 1831, with Johnathan N. Baily, a fur trader, being appointed Chicago's first postmaster. [1] [2] Chicago was long the hub of the Railway Mail Service of the United States.

  8. Remember when the old post office was on First Street? Here's ...

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    The front page of this Mar. 3, 1937 issue of the Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter features the dedication of the new post office on First Street, which replaced the 1905 building in the same ...

  9. Marshall Field and Company Building - Wikipedia

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    The Marshall Field and Company Building is a National Historic Landmark retail building on State Street in Chicago, Illinois. Now housing Macy's State Street, the Beaux-Arts and Commercial style complex was designed by architect Daniel Burnham and built in two stages—north end in 1901–02 (including columned entrance) and south end in 1905–06.

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