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City Hall Post Office and Courthouse
City Hall Post Office and Courthouse
Old Post Office; Changing New York
The post office at City Hall Park, at Broadway and Park Row, with the Woolworth Building behind it. The post office was razed a month after this was taken.
IMAGE DATE1938
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Museum of the City of New York
Museum of the City of New YorkCity Hall Post Office and Courthouse, May 25, 1938.
Construction on the City Hall Post Office and Courthouse — nicknamed “Mullett’s monstrosity” for architect Alfred B. Mullett — began in 1869, but was not completed until 1880, by which time the building’s elaborate French Second Empire design had fallen out of fashion.
By the early 20th century, calls for the reviled building’s demolition were frequent. It was finally torn down in 1938, about one month after Berenice Abbott took this photograph.
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Urban Archive
Urban Archive