Contributed by Bangor Public Library
Description
Bangor's handsome Federal Building, housing the Custom House and Post Office, was begun in 1853 and completed in 1855. Designed by Ammi Burnham Young, who also designed the Vermont Capitol and the Boston Custom House, it rested on an island in the middle of the Kenduskeg stream and thus had to incorporate multiple facades and entrances. The ground floor is supported by "rusticated" piers and topped by lighter columns in a style designed to evoke the Renaissance instead of the Neoclassical designs popular at the time. Alfred Bult Mullet, then the United States Supervising Architect, designed an addition that was built in 1869. Although the building was designed with state-of-the-art fireproofing, involving brick arches, I-beams set in concrete and cast-iron columns, it was left a gutted shell in the wake of the Great Fire in 1911.
About This Item
- Title: Bangor Post Office about 1900
- Creator: Leyland Whipple
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: Bangor, Penobscot County, ME
- Media: Lantern slide
- Dimensions: 6.2 cm x 7.5 cm
- Collection: Whipple Lantern Slide Collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Post offices--Maine--Bangor
- Government facilities--Maine--Bangor
- Customhouses--Maine--Bangor
- Mullett, A.B. (Alfred Bult), 1834-1890
- Young, Ammi B. (Ammi Burnham), 1799-1874
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