general post office

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Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. for an astonishing $10 million — the equivalent to $173 million today — the hotel, which opened in 1919, was envisioned by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White to be in concert with two of its other creations: Pennsylvania Station, across Seventh Avenue, and the General Post Office, on Eighth.

From Seattle Times

For 30 years, he was a United States Postal Service employee, toiling mostly in the vast mail-sorting room beyond the imposing columns of what was New York City’s general post office in Midtown Manhattan.

From New York Times

Yeats’ poem is his meditation on the Easter Rising, which saw Irish rebels declare an Irish Republic and then occupy Dublin’s General Post Office and other key buildings in the city.

From Seattle Times

The hall occupies what was once a mail-sorting room in the city’s general post office.

From Washington Post

In it, he describes the origins of the project and explains which characters he invented and which were based on historical figures like James, the physicist Oliver Lodge and William Preece, the chief electrician of the United Kingdom’s General Post Office.

From New York Times