General Post Office department, Washington, D.C., between 1900 and 1906

ID: 1324

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.

Detroit Publishing Co., Copyright Claimant, and Publisher Detroit Publishing Co, Jackson, William Henry, photographer. General Post Office department, Washington, D.C. [Between 1900 and 1906] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/det1994009032/PP/. (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…