Celebrating our Nation's Post Offices
ADDRESS: 10096 Tallmadge Rd, Diamond, OH 44412
ADDRESS: 45 Kringle Cir, Santa Claus, IN 47579
Another Indiana road trip brought me to Santa Claus. I bet this place is crazy in December. I much prefer less crowds.
David W. Gates Jr.
ADDRESS: 1255 22nd St NW Lbby, Washington, DC 20037
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Doug
ADDRESS: 200 N Washington St, Alexandria, VA 22320
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Doug,
ADDRESS: 1800 M St NW Frnt 1, Washington, DC 20036.
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ADDRESS: 396 N Main St, Winton, NC 27986
These are North Carolina post offices (M-Z) from my recent trip—September of 2022.
Doug
ADDRESS: 406 N Main St, Winton, NC 27986
These are North Carolina post offices (M-Z) from my recent trip—September of 2022.
Doug
ADDRESS: 121 E Main St, Williamston, NC 27892
ARTIST: Philip von Saltza
TITLE: First Flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas (mural)
STATUS: The Williamston post office is still an active, operating facility, and the mural can be viewed by interested members of the public. It resides in the lobby on the wall above the postmaster’s door.
YEAR: 1940
These are North Carolina post offices (M-Z) from my recent trip—September of 2022. The painting, in the post office in this eastern North Carolina town, commemorates the Wright brothers’ first experiment with flight, which happened just around 100 miles away in Kitty Hawk.
Doug
“Used with the permission of the United States Postal Service®. All rights reserved.”
: [Hardcover] Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz
ADDRESS: 130 N King St, Windsor, NC 27983
These are North Carolina post offices (M-Z) from my recent trip—September of 2022. Windsor—built 1965.
Doug
ADDRESS: 401 Washington Ave, Weldon, NC 27890
ARTIST: Jean de Marco
TITLE: Early Childhood of Virginia Dare
MEDIUM: Plaster (relief)
STATUS: The Weldon post office is still an active, operating facility, and the relief can be viewed by interested members of the public. It resides in the lobby on the wall above the postmaster’s door.
YEAR: 1940
These are North Carolina post offices (M-Z) from my recent trip—September of 2022. Weldon, relief is the, “Early Childhood of Virginia Dare,”. She was the first English born child in the New Colony in 1587 (now North Carolina).
Doug
: [Hardcover] Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz