Green Cove Springs.
Friday, February 13, 2015
Feb 13, 2015 Green Cove Springs, Florida, 32043
Fairly generic Post Office, located right down town in
Green Cove Springs.
Green Cove Springs.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
December 17, 2014 The US Post Office, (1912) Fernandina Beach, Florida
This post office, which is listed on the National Register, is actually scheduled to be closed.
When I visited, there was only one clerk on duty, and a long line. I did get a cancellation.
Originally built in 1912.
The United States Post Office, Custom House, and Courthouse is an historic building of the United States government in Fernandina Beach, Florida. It was constructed in the locally popular Renaissance Revival architecture style, and was completed in 1912 under the supervision of James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department. The building sits at the intersection of 4th and Centre Streets, across from another historic Court House (c. 1898), and adjacent to the pre-Civil War Victorian Lesesne House (c. 1859). It is three stories, comprising 18,800 square feet (1,750 m2), including a basement and a partial attic. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida met here until the creation of the Middle District in 1962, at which time the building entered use by the Middle District of Florida beginning in 1962. The facility was also in use as a post office during that entire period. Other federal offices vacated the building in the 1930s-1940s, with the post office remaining only on the first floor. Some second and third floor space was used commercially into the 1990s, but the condition of the structure and lack of elevators ultimately led to the end those uses.
In 1989, the building was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press.
When I visited, there was only one clerk on duty, and a long line. I did get a cancellation.
Originally built in 1912.
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| As it looked in 1912 |
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The United States Post Office, Custom House, and Courthouse is an historic building of the United States government in Fernandina Beach, Florida. It was constructed in the locally popular Renaissance Revival architecture style, and was completed in 1912 under the supervision of James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department. The building sits at the intersection of 4th and Centre Streets, across from another historic Court House (c. 1898), and adjacent to the pre-Civil War Victorian Lesesne House (c. 1859). It is three stories, comprising 18,800 square feet (1,750 m2), including a basement and a partial attic. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida met here until the creation of the Middle District in 1962, at which time the building entered use by the Middle District of Florida beginning in 1962. The facility was also in use as a post office during that entire period. Other federal offices vacated the building in the 1930s-1940s, with the post office remaining only on the first floor. Some second and third floor space was used commercially into the 1990s, but the condition of the structure and lack of elevators ultimately led to the end those uses.
In 1989, the building was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press.
Saturday, September 27, 2014
September 27, 2014 3 Rural Florida Post Offices, Sumter County Florida
September 28 Tour 3 more post offices for the collection, but no cancellations!
Was able to stop by 4 rural post offices today but not one of them was open to get a cancellation, it being Saturday in rural Florida....
First was Sumterville, Fl. a half a mile down the road
Then, Coleman Florida, just up the road a piece.
They were stripping and waxing the lobby here today, so it wasn't open. Well fine.
Last was the post office in Wildwood Fl., which was literally in a shopping center.
It was open today from 10-12, but I got there at like 5 after 12.
First was Sumterville, Fl. a half a mile down the road
Last was the post office in Wildwood Fl., which was literally in a shopping center.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
June 18 Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park Post Offices, California
Came across these two as we were touring the parks today, Sequoia was unmanned:
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
June 17, 2014 Yosemite National Park Post Office, California 95389
Walked by here on my way to the Visitor's Center- Old time wooden windows with bars inside-
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Donalds, Abbeville County SC
This was a drive by on the way to a National Historic Landmark just down the road....
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