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File:Detail looking southeast of south lantern on plaza. Note balustrade detail at lower right of photograph - Stamford Post Office, 421 Atlantic Street, Stamford, Fairfield County, HABS CONN,1-STAMF,13-14.tif

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Detail looking southeast of south lantern on plaza. Note balustrade detail at lower right of photograph - Stamford Post Office, 421 Atlantic Street, Stamford, Fairfield County, CT
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Wenderoth, Oscar; Charles McCaul Company; Tiffany and Company; Yale and Towne; Carlyle Furniture Company; McKee Company; Stamford Iron Works; Burnham Corporation; Campbell, John A; Trenton Potteries Company; Historical Perspectives, Incorporated, contractor; Vergara, M, transmitter; Stewart, Robert C, photographer; Bedford, Steven, historian; Saunders, Cece, historian
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Detail looking southeast of south lantern on plaza. Note balustrade detail at lower right of photograph - Stamford Post Office, 421 Atlantic Street, Stamford, Fairfield County, CT
Depicted place Connecticut; Fairfield County; Stamford
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS CONN,1-STAMF,13-14
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  • Significance: Designed in 1914 and completed in 1916, the Stamford Post Office is an excellent example of an eclectic Neo-Renaissance style federal building constructed in the early twentieth century. As emphasized in the National Register nomination (1985), there are certain design elements that have enabled this post office "to hold a strong position as an important city landmark." These features include the Neo-Renaissance/Mediterranean Style, the raised entrance plaza, the red-clay tile hipped roof atop the dark brown bracketed wood projecting eaves, glass and bronze lanterns, the rhythm of arched bays, and the buff-colored masonry accented with glazed polychrome terra cotta tile. The Post Office helped to set the tone for further development of Atlantic Street. Designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department (at this time headed by Oscar Wenderoth), this historic property is one of the last post offices built to an individual design.
  • Survey number: HABS CT-467
  • Building/structure dates: 1915-1916 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1930 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1938-1941 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: after. 1975- before. 1980 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 85003328.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ct0653.photos.378536p
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Object location41° 03′ 11.99″ N, 73° 32′ 21.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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