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U.S. Post Office

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1897, John Tanner, builder. Main St. (PA 547)
  • (William E. Fischer, Jr.)
  • (William E. Fischer, Jr.)

Harford's clapboarded timber-frame post office is as small as the village it serves. The scallop-shingled false front disguises the gable roof sufficiently to set the building apart from the surrounding dwellings and gives it a little monumentality. The building enjoys remarkable integrity, from its postal boxes and board ceiling to its front door latch and window frames. The window near the rear of the north side appears to have once been a doorway.

Writing Credits

Author: 
George E. Thomas
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What's Nearby

Tyler-Jones House
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First Congregational Church
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Citation

George E. Thomas, "U.S. Post Office", [, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-02-SQ5.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 2

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, George E. Thomas, with Patricia Likos Ricci, Richard J. Webster, Lawrence M. Newman, Robert Janosov, and Bruce Thomas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 539-540.

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