Post offices

NOTES: This is a contemporary photograph of an original drawing. The design adopted for this building was by A. E. Johnson with the Chief Architect of the Public Works Department, William Wardell, known to have influenced the final design. The initial two storey building was completed by 1867 and illustrated in the Builder in 1871 (credited to Wardell). As a result of severe overcrowding a new design by Johnson added a third storey and tower by 1887.

NOTES: Charles Hardman painted the ceiling and murals in the central rotunda, depicting scenes from Florida history.

SOURCE: British Architect, vol. 29, 1888 Mar. 2, between p. 154-163

NOTES: The General Post Office was remodelled in 1905-1915 by Pentland and rebuilt 1924-1929, after the 1916 Easter Rising by the Office of Public Building and Works.

SOURCE: Otto Wagner, Einige Skizzen, Projecte und ausgefuhrte Bauwerke (Vienna: Schroll, 1890-1922), Band 2, no. 8