How To Apply The National Register Criteria To Post Offices Classic Reprint

Excerpt from How to Apply the National Register Criteria to Post Offices Post offices are important ex amples of this type of property. In order to facilitate the evaluation and nomination of post offices, the Na tional Park Service conducted a study of various factors in the establish ment, role, and design of post offices in order to establish a consistent policy for applying the National Register Criteria for Evaluation to these buildings. The study focused on the history of post offices prior to 1939 to accommodate the impact of major Federal programs of the Depression. The following guidance for evaluating the significance of post offices using the National Register Criteria resulted from this study. This second edition of National Register Bulletin 13 also looks at post offices built after World War II. This publication is intended to assist anyone in the evaluation of the eligibility of post offices for inclusion in the National Register, and to suggest an appropriate approach for evaluating other similar resources. Old Post Office and Clock Tower, District of Columbia, 1891-99. One of Washington's few Romanesque Revival Buildings on a monumental scale, this was the city's third tallest building when completed, exceeded only by the Capitol and the Washington Monument. The Old Post Office was the first Federal building erected in the area now known as the Federal Triangle. It served as headquarters for every Postmaster General from 1899 to 1934. (william Edmund Barrett) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.