Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Wood and brass, marble and glass

 
post office and custom house
Southern view

The south entrance of this United States Custom House and Post Office building is presented as  relaxed view 3d stereograph.  
 
The entrances to the building are flanked by bronze lamps.
 
Left side of stairway with bronze lamp
Imposing 

The lamps are almost 6 feet in height.  The big panels of textured "glass" in the lamp are now plastic.  The original glass was curved, as is the plastic that is in there now. When the original glass was damaged, it may have been too costly to repair or replace it with the same curved and textured glass, or to even find a replacement for that style of glass.
 
 
puul door plate
Shined up

 
 
inside door plate with pull
Also shiny

 
The entrance doors have their PULL door plates.  These inform the patrons to "pull on the handle".
 
 
Brass on table top
Reflected in the table top

The brass work on the table top shows signs of former accoutrements.
 
 
Customer table
Table and view without

Patrons can gaze out the window as they use the table.
 
This main post office building was completed in 1931.  It was modeled after the main building of the United States Postal Service in New York City, now known as the James A. Farley Building.
 

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