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Photo Gallery: The Nine Lives Of Old Post Offices
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— Hotel Monaco — Washington, D.C.: Built on the former site of Blodgett's Hotel, the General Post Office in Washington, D.C., was originally home to the Post Office Department, a forerunner of the U.S. Postal Service. It was in this building that Postmaster General Montgomery Blair first proposed the idea of home delivery in 1862. Today, it is again used exclusively as a hotel. (Coburn Du...
Hotel Monaco — Washington, D.C.: Built on the former site of Blodgett's Hotel, the General Post Office in Washington, D.C., was originally home to the Post Office Department, a forerunner of the U.S. Postal Service. It was in this building that Postmaster General Montgomery Blair first proposed the idea of home delivery in 1862. Today, it is again used exclusively as a hotel.
Coburn Dukehart / NPR/Researched by Jo Ella Straley
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— Farley Post Office/Moynihan Station – New York City: Business, political and civic leaders in New York City gathered in 2007 to announce support for plan to turn the Farley Post Office into a train station. The building bears the inscription, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" — a paraphrasing from ...
Farley Post Office/Moynihan Station – New York City: Business, political and civic leaders in New York City gathered in 2007 to announce support for plan to turn the Farley Post Office into a train station. The building bears the inscription, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" — a paraphrasing from Herodotus' Histories, often falsely cited as the Postal Service's motto.
Susan Watts / NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images/Researched by Jo Ella Straley