General Post Office Building, June 1860

ID: 1323

This file appears in: General Post Office (General Land Office): Built in two stages from 1839 to 1866, the building is the work of Robert Mills and Thomas U. Walter, two of the most noted 19th-century American architects.

General Post Office building. 1860. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2009631421/. (Accessed September 22, 2016.)

General Post Office (General Land Office): Built in two stages from 1839 to 1866, the building is the work of Robert Mills and Thomas U. Walter, two of the most noted 19th-century American architects.

By The DC Historic Sites team

This beautifully scaled and finely detailed building, with exceptionally fine interiors, is a tour de force of restrained neo-classical design and an outstanding example of American civil…