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Building the Post Office

8 December 2010
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807 160x120 post office complete november 5 1933 Building the Post Office 808 160x120 post office complete Building the Post Office 809 160x120 post office interior Building the Post Office        Towards the end of 1932, the area on the Northwest corner of Crescent Avenue and Seventh Street began to be cleared to make room for a new Ellwood City United States Post Office. Mark Barnes has shared with us a number of pictures taken by McGlincy Studios to chronicle the construction of the Post Office beginning in 1932 through completion in 1933. 
    These pictures are an important part of our history not only for the pictures of the Post Office but also for what you can see in the background. Most of the houses pictured here in 1933 are still standing along Crescent Avenue and look very similar today. As the tube mill was only a couple blocks away, it is safe to assume that these were mill workers homes and a couple of the extraordinarily large houses were probably boarding houses.
    The houses are not the only fascinating buildings in the pictures. If you look just beyond the church in the right of the picture, you get an un-obscured view of the old Hospital on the hill. To us at least, this is an incredible view as today it is hard to picture the old hospital without it being mostly hidden from view behind trees.
    Other interesting points include the brick paved roads, the old cars, the two foot diameter telephone pools and the fancy street lights hanging from them, and so on and so on. The town had come a long way in a short forty years when Merrit Green served as Ellwood City’s first Postmaster. If this picture brings back any memories you would like to share, please leave a reply below or email us at info@ellwoodcitymemories.com

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One Comments to “Building the Post Office”

  1. Mark BarnesJanuary 16, 2011 at 6:43 pm

    Ben,
    While reading through some Beaver County history, I found this article from “Milestones”, (the Beaver County historical newsletter), about the building of the post office at Midland in 1938. Notice toward the bottom of the article that there are conditions and requirements set by the government that need to be met during the building of the post office.

    In particular, notice Section 3, paragraph 8… It details the requirements for monthly photographs to be taken, exactly like the ones during the construction of the Ellwood City post office that I previously sent to you…
    In considering the similarities of timeframe and construction between the EC post office and the Midland post office, this would have been the same guidelines that the EC contractors would have had to abide by.

    SECTION 3 General requirements, page 2 photographs.

    Paragraph 8. Progress photographs shall be furnished in triplicate on the first of each month until the work is 99 per cent completed, taken from two points selected by the construction engineer showing as much as possible of the work installed during the previous month. Photographs shall be 8 by 10 inches in size and mounted on muslin.

    Here is the link to the article…
    http://www.bchistory.org/beavercounty/BeaverCountyTopical/postoffices/MidlandPostOffice/MidlandPOMW92.html

    Thanks…
    Mark.

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