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Description
Includes several original blueprints by William Binder circa 1914, as well as U.S. Treasury blueprints from the 1920s for an addition or remodel of the original 1892 post office on Market Street (now the San Jose Museum of Art). Plans for the new post office on St. James Square include shop drawing bluprints for third-party contractors, Treasury Department standard mechanical drawings, Wyckoff's full scale model blueprints for architectural elements, line drawings on tissue, cornerstone design, and full set of elevations and floor plans. The [former] San Jose main post office was a WPA project, located on St. James Square. It was built to replace the Market Street post office. Wyckoff travelled to Washington, D.C. to get his plans approved. Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it was built in Spanish Colonial style with lavish use of terra cotta facing and ornamentation and red tile roof, and completed in 1933.
Type
image
Identifier
BECD3571-AAC4-4872-A2DE-434178359338 1989-187-114
Subject
Works Progress Administration Post offices St. James Square (San Jose, Calif.) St. James Park (San Jose, Calif.) St. James Hotel (San Jose, Calif.) Nineteen thirties (LCSH) Downtown neighborhood (San Jose, Calif.) Government buildings (LCSH) Wyckoff, Ralph
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