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Courthouse & Post Office, Main Street, Windsor, Windsor County, VT
Summary
Significance: This cast-iron frame building was designed by Ammi B. Young, Supervising Architect, Office of Construction, Treasury Department, 1852-1862, and built 1856-1859. The building is maintained in excellent and unaltered condition, and the original plans for its construction survive. It is the oldest active post office building in the United States and is typical of government architecture during this period.
Survey number: HABS VT-62
Building/structure dates: 1856- 1859 Initial Construction
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Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Young, Ammi B
Overby, Osmund R, historian
Edwards, Henry C, historian
Janion, Aubrey P, photographer
Location
Windsor (Vt.), 43.47998, -72.38645
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
