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A Unified Command was established when Firefighters responded to a HazMat incident with an overturned semi on the southbound 405 Freeway. The tractor was carrying approximately 8600 gallons of butane. The container was righted without incident. © Photos by Juan Guerra
Pike County. Photo by D Greenwald, Jan. 2010.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
Discontinued Apr. 10, 2003. Fayette County. Photo by J Gallagher, 1975.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
Middlesex County. Photo by E Kalish, May 2014.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
Pretty cool building. Just down the road is the Hinsdale Humane Society, the one time home of Morris the Cat!
Hinsdale IL / Symonds Drive
Post Office
OWL POST, POST OFFICE, in Hogsmeade Village - Universal Studios, Orlando, USA.
You can just about see some of the owls and the bird cages in the window, just a shame a lot of people's reflections in the Florida sunshine mean you cannot see them very easily....very busy place !
Summer 2012
Hancock County. Photo by S Bahnsen, Feb. 2016.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
Aquí en tiempo completo hasta con vídeos una Aphonopelma aberrans mudando de piel (este proceso tardo 3 horas
Bronx Central Annex-U.S. Post Office, Mott Haven, The Bronx
The Bronx Post Office, built in 1935-37, was designed by the architect Thomas Harlan Ellett in a style< which combined modified classical ornament with the elegant simplicity of modem architecture, A description in Architectural Forum for June 1938 states: "A distinct modem influence and the continuing tradition of "government classic' are the two conflicting tendencies which have resulted in the first signs of vitality in American post office design, and the new Bronx Post Office is an excellent example of best recent work ... the building subtly suggests a Georgian precedent without the use of traditional detail Plans for a much needed Bronx Post Office were announced in 1934; the building was to be erected at the Grand Concourse site which the Federal Government had purchased twenty-five years earlier.
Construction began in 1935 under the direction of the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department, Louis A..Simon, and of the Supervising Engineer, Neal A. Melick. The cornerstone was laid on June 13, 1936, with Postmaster General James A. Farley and New York City Postmaster Albert Goldman officiating. Farley made the occasion an opportunity to assail the critics of the New Deal. The same officials were present at the opening of the new building on May 15, 1937, when it was announced that the building would be known as the Bronx Central Annex and would serve as the Bronx headquarters of the New York Post Office.
The Post Office occupies an entire block. Its smooth gray brick walls rise above a granite terrace which varies in height along the side elevations to conform to the slope of the street. Broad, shallow steps lead up to the three entrances facing the Grand Concourse. The terrace is enclosed by a classically-inspired balustrade, flanked at the entrance steps by blocks decorated with highly stylized swags and rosettes and carrying flagpoles. The ornate foliate bronze flagpole bases have a rather baroque character.
The most prominent features of the building are the graceful window openings set within marble arches which contrast handsomely with the smooth gray brick walls. Radial brick arches, above impost block level, enframe the marble arches of the window openings. The three openings which contain the bronze entrances are set within deep reveals. The facades are crowned by a simple continuous stone bandcourse set with stylized rosettes and containing the inscription "Bronx - United States Post Office - New York."
Two sculptures, larger than life-size, affixed to the front facade add further interest to the building. The designs were chosen from over 400 models submitted in a national competition held in 1936. "The Letter," designed by Henry Kreis, portrays a mother and her child receiving a message from an absent member of the family, "Noah," by Charles Rudy, depicts the Patriarch, with a deer in one arm, straddling the Ark, and receiving the dove's message that the flood was subsiding. Also of considerable artistic and historical interest are thirteen murals in the main lobby depicting the occupations of American workers, painted by Ben Shahn and his wife, Bernards Bryson, in August 1939.
The elegant simplicity of the building with its finely exacted details make it one of the best examples of government architecture in this style* It is notable not only for its architecture but also for its sculpture and paintings. It met a long-felt need in The Bronx when built, and continues to serve that function today.
- From the 1976 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
St. Petersburg Open Air Post Office.
5 exposure vertorama, hand stitched after perspective correction and manual blending. Gave up trying to make the final "roof shot" fit, so not quite 180° vertical view.
National Registry of Historic Places:
400 1st Ave N
4/4/75
#75000564
27°46'18"N 82°38'20"W
Comments and feedback welcome.
Riders of Garmin Sharp, Saxo Bank Tinkoff Bank and Glud & Marstand-LRØ before the start of Post Danmark Rundt.
Kodiak Island Borough. Photo by J Gallagher, Jun. 1992.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
Teil einer erneuten Fotoserie rund um den Posttower in Bonn.
Part of a new series of photographs around the Post Tower in Bonn.
Redundant concrete strainer post still holding a long dead tree at the edge of the Waimea Inlet near Nelson, New Zealand.