Title: Great American post offices
First published: 1998
Description: Great American Post Offices traces the fascinating architectural and social history of these diverse buildings for the first time.

The book contains an in-depth, state-by-state guide to 250 historic post offices nationwide - including many landmarked structures - and features vivid anecdotes about what took place within them. Inside you will find information on building location, architect, and date, plus architectural details, history, and current use; buildings by Daniel Burnham; McKim, Mead & White; William A.

Potter; James Knox Taylor; and other leading architects; examples of many architectural styles; and almost 200 photographs, historic postcards, engravings, and original architectural drawings - many published for the first time.
Subjects: Post office buildings, Directories, Postal service, Pictorial works, History, Postal service, united states
Places: United States
LC classification: NA4451 .B78 1998