United States Post Office Building

United States Post Office Building

United States Post Office Building David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim

United States Post Office Building

1939, Louis A. Simon and Neal Melick. 1st St. N.E. between Central and 1st Ave. N.E.

Here is a 1930s version of the Colonial Revival, with red brick walls and a small cupola. The base, pilasters, and entablature are all here, but they have been “modernized,” i.e., simplified to thin, almost two-dimensional suggestions of those elements. In its park setting the building successfully states its public use.

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