Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Old Post Office, Coraopolis

Entrance to the old post office

Colonial revival had passed from a fashion to a mania by the 1930s, with the restoration of Williamsburg capturing the American imagination with visions of an elegant Georgian past. Small federal buildings, especially post offices, almost always adopted the Georgian style—as we see in this modest post office with its neat Georgian entrance, complete with fanlight. The post office has moved to larger quarters, but the building is kept in original shape by its current occupants.

Post office
Cornerstone, with Louis A. Simon as supervising architect
Side of the building
Old post office
Fujifilm FinePix HS10; Samsung Galaxy A15 5G.


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