Structures of the type Post Office
Custom House, New Bedford Massachusetts
Date added:December 14, 2009
This is an early Federal building representative of governmental activity during a period when the Merchant Marine was growing rapidly. It was built for a customs office and a postal office.
Completed in 1836, the U.S. Custom House in New Bedford is the oldest continuously operating Custom House in the Nation. It is also the largest, most elaborate and arguably the finest of the series of four granite Greek Revival customhouses in New England designed by Robert Mills between 1834 and 1836. The only other customhouse designed by Robert Mills in Massachusetts is in Newburyport. Mills, the first architect of international reputation both born and trained in America, is also known for designing important buildings and structures in Washington, D.C. such as the U.S. Treasury, the General Post Office, the Patent Office and the Washington Monument.
More...First Tacoma Post Office, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington
Date added:August 07, 2010
Was the oldest house in Tacoma in addition to being its first post office. Logs and shingle roof.
More...McFadden House, Chehalis, Lewis County, Washington
Date added:August 07, 2010
Mr. Saunders was the founder of Saundersville, later to become known as Chehalis. The building remains undisturbed, the street in front was plotted to parallel its frontage. This building was used as the Post Office of Saundersville, and was later purchased, in 1859, by Obediih B. McFadden, who was later appointed first Chief Justice of Washington Territory, by President Buchanan in 1861.
MATERIALS OF Construction - Squared log walls, mortise and tenon corners. Shingle roof. Considerably altered and added to.
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Old Custom House, St. Paul Minnesota
United States Courthouse and Post Office, La Crosse Wisconsin
United States Post Office and Courthouse, Yakima, Washington