First Open Air Post Office
November 27th, 2009 admin
In the early 1900s, St. Petersburg, Florida Postmaster Roy Hanna envisioned a new kind of post office – one that was open on all sides which would allow customers to access their post office boxes at any hour. His vision became reality in 1917, when St. Petersburg opened the nation’s first outdoor post office. “The design of the post office was inspired by one of the icons of the early Italian Renaissance in Florence, the Ospedale degli Innocenti (1424) by Filipp Brunellschi and contains many ornaments of …
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