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Our brief trip to Ashland ends with this post, but I'll be back in a few months to photograph the current library, high school, churches, and a few other places I may have missed along the way. We leave with a view of the upper 100 block of N.Yates St. Here one finds the village Post Office, two antique stores, and a two-story brick building that may have once been commercial but now has the appearance of a residential property.
Until next time …
Unveiled in 1974, "Flamingo" is a 50 ton steel sculpture created by American artist Alexander Calder located in the Federal Plaza of downtown Chicago. What's the gender of the Flamingo? That's a post office to its left, so presumably, it's mail :)
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 400, f/7.1, 46mm, 1/200s
This old place was a hardware store in its last life and for years also housed the old U.S. Post Office. The Post Office eventually relocated, perhaps when the hardware store closed down. The new Post Office closed permanently in 2011. It's believed the building dates to circa 1930.
316 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA
"The B. Free Franklin Post Office is located in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood. It sits in a house that was once owned by Benjamin Franklin, the country's first postmaster general.
The Simon Bros. Mercantile opened around 1912. At the time of this photo it was still run by the Simon family. The old general store provides various goods and products for the area ranchers and hunters. It even has a small cafe. At some point in its long history, the store became home to the town's U.S. Post Office, which opened in 1898. Roosevelt is a Texas ghost town. Roosevelt, Texas. 6.7.2015.
Come chill & grill in Rollins, Montana. I'm sure the locals will make you feel welcome. All 183 of 'em.
Happy Fence Friday everyone.
Rollins, Montana
The Old U.S. Post Office in Elizabethton, Tennessee was nominated for listing on the National Register of Historic Places under criterion C for architecture in this small community. It was quite an achievement for a town this small to secure a building of this
size & style and the architecture was very unique for the area. This late Beaux Arts building was constructed in 1932 and has an ashlar, raised basement, a front facade with eight Ionic columns in antis, and a hip roof with balustrated parapet. This buildings was designed in 1931, constructed in 1932, and occupied by the Post Office in 1933. This was done under the supervision of the Treasury Department and C. A. Morrison & Son was General Contractor. The value is enchanced by the fact that the exterior of building today exists same as it did when newly constructed. A 'modernization' was accomplished under the auspices of the General Services Administration in 1965. However, the changes made to interior were minor and in no way effect the character of the building. It was added to the NRHP on August 9, 1983. The information above and more can be found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration located here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/9d68ec5a-429b-45b5-a4f...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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U.S. Post Office in Barnett, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF24-70mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/8.0 with a 1/2000-second exposure at ISO 200, processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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Gardner is a small, rural, unincorporated community, in Huerfano County. A post office has served the community continuously since 1871. I doubt this is the original post office, but I sure liked that chimney. Gardner, Colorado. 6.27.2015
US Post Office in Luckenbach, Texas, featuring a rustic wooden building with a porch surrounded by trees.
This Texas Panhandle country store went out of business, as did the post office, several years ago. Valle De Oro is a small unincorporated community 20-25 miles Northwest of Amarillo on FM 1061. The property has been sold. The terrain is beautiful but rugged....not a place you want to have car trouble.
It is a question the one24thscale team asks themselves a lot. To desaturate the colors or not to desaturate the colors?
Do we show you the scene as the photography of the era would have captured it? Or, do we show the scene as your eyes might have seen it? Of course, your eyes would have been seeing in Kodachrome back in 1955 or so, when this scene is set.
To further give the scene a vintage look, Ken has given it the white border that came with pretty much any print you would have gotten back then.
As you look over this image and the two that follow, ask yourself, which version do your eyes prefer?
The US Post Office in Basin sits in the shadow of a towering spruce tree on a winter’s day in 2021. This view has not changed much since I grew up in Basin except that the tree keeps getting taller.
Basin (originally known as Basin City) was founded in 1896 by W.S. Collins. The first Post Office in Basin opened in 1896, the same year the city was founded, with Charles F. Judkins as postmaster. As the city grew a new post office building was needed. That “new” Post Office in Basin sits to the east of the County Courthouse on The Courthouse Square. It along with Wheeler’s IGA (grocery)may be the most visited buildings in downtown Basin. Built in 1918, the building is an excellent example of a small single-purpose post office in the Neo-Classical design. Construction documents indicate that the Post Office was opened for business in January of 1919. It still performs that function today with a steady stream of customers. Most residents in the town have post office boxes as the mail is not delivered from house to house. The Basin Post Office is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.
Reference:
docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://wyoshpo.wyo.g...
Hattiesburg, Miss.- During the 1930s the federal government built hundreds of new post offices throughout the U.S. All were architecturally nearly identical in style. They remind me of classical Greek temples both outside and inside. Interior access to customer postal boxes are spacious as this example illustrates. Postal boxes are on the right wall. Marble was extensively used.
Ruins of the old post office which was in existence from 4.10.1908 - 11.2.2002. When the couple that ran the post office decided to retire in 2002, they were the only residents of Mt. Dora. With no other residents available to run the post office, the government closed it down.
The Old Chicago Main Post Office was built in 1921 and expanded to 60 acres in 1932. It was vacated in 1997 for a new building.
This is a composite of two photos.
The famous, iconic landmark in Luckenbach, Texas. The view is looking to the east. My thinking in composing this image was to include much of the oak trees surrounding this building and structure as a complement with the more rural setting of this location. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 4 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
This two-story brick building facing Court Square in McMinnville, Tennessee is the U.S. Post Office (or Main Post Office) that was constructed in 1931. The facade is a Georgian Revival style of architecture. Even thought there has been an addition/remodeling that occurred in 1963, the addition and the original building maintain its architectural design and integrity. It is the only public building of this style in McMinnville and represents the finest example of this design style in all of Warren County. This building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 3, 1985. All the information above was gleaned from the original documents submitted to the NRHP for listing consideration and can be found here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail?assetID=77730078-dc94-...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the link below:
How do you stop 1.2 million pounds of steam engine in order to shoot a forced perspective image?
Simply put, you don't. Instead, you follow the beast until it stops for the night and then set up the shot. Ken quickly pointed out the error in my dreams of getting a shot as the train rolled past in Julesburg.
US 30 in western Nebraska does not see much traffic congestion but it was packed on the day Big Boy headed towards Sidney, NE where the beast stopped for the night. The one24thscale team went to lunch in order to give all the tourists a chance to get their shots and move on. When we got to downtown Sidney, we had no problem finding a spot to set up the scene. While we were at it, we introduced a family of four to the art of forced perspective and let two sweet little girls look through the camera and watch the magic happen before their eyes.
Check out the Pony Express logo the US Post Office was using for a while in the 1950s. This Ford truck got the role of appearing with Big Boy because the Transcontinental RR and Pony Express followed the same route to California for much of the way.
We knocked this one out in twenty minutes or so, including talking to bystanders. The Packard and I headed back to Julesburg while Ken got his drone out for some closeup shots of UP 4014.
UP 4014, aka Big Boy is 1:1 scale and was made by ALCO of Schenectady, New York
1955 Chevy Police car is 1:24 scale and made by an unknown manufacturer
1951-52 Ford stake bed truck is 1:24 scale and made by Golden Wheel
This is a forced perspective photograph of 1/24th scale die-cast model vehicles in front to a real background.
Abandoned Businesses and The US Post Office (On Saturday, no flag flying) in the small community of Olancha, California
The City Library is architecturally one of the most sophisticated structures in Hillsboro every since its construction in 1914. Designed by architect James K. Taylor, the structure's Renaissance Revival form appears to be related to McKim, Mead, and White's Boston Public Library of 1888-92, and Florence's Foundling Hospital. Other Texas cities such as Plainview, Temple, and Huntsville possess similar post office buildings. As both post office and library, the ornate Hillsboro building has served major governmental and educational needs in the community for over 110 years.
The lot which the building occupies was the site of the city's first fire department, founded in 1883 and officially organized in 1885. Although the property was purchased by the federal government in 1910, actual work did not begin until 1912. After continuous operation through the 20th century and increasing service demands, the Post Office constructed a new building on West Franklin Street in 1967. On February 14, 1968, the City of Hillsboro gained possession of the building and selected architect William Chambe of the firm of Rucker and Chambe in Temple, Texas to draft exterior restoration plans. Renovation of the interior was begun a year later. Dedicated in 1971, the newly restored library has continued to serve local civic, cultural, and education needs every since.
On March 30, 1984, the Hillsboro City Library (and former Hillsboro U.S. Post Office) was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) for its local contributions to the areas of Architecture, Education, and Government. All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
catalog.archives.gov/id/40969621
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/