U.S. Post Office
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City Hall (U.S. Post Office)
1908–1911, James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect, U.S. Treasury Department. 1937, extension. c. 1980, conversion. 715 Princess Anne St.
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(Photograph by Mark Mones) -
(Photograph by Mark Mones) -
(Photograph by Mark Mones)
Taylor, a former partner of Cass Gilbert, fervently believed in classicism as the basis of an American national style. Nominally Georgian Revival in its red brick and limestone details, the former post office announces its importance with a trabeated portico of six Ionic columns and a broad platform of steps. The limestone came from Maine and the brick from local brickworks.
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