The General Post Office's spiral staircase

Summary

Looking upward through one of the General Post Office Building's spiral staircase. The General Post Office was later known as the Tariff Commission building. The building was made available for use by the Smithsonian Institution in 1984 which was not pursued. The building was leased by the General Services Administration in the late 1990s to a group who converted the space into a hotel preserving its elegant features such as this spiral staircase.

Subject

• General Post Office Building
• Tariff Office Building
• United States General Services Administration

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

• Featured in TORCH, December 1984
• The original negative number is 84-14248-6, but because of the quailty of the original negative, the original photograph was re-scanned and given new negative and digital file numbers.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder December 1984

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1984

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Staircases
• Buildings, structures, etc
• Architecture

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Architecture

ID Number

2004-10343

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Architectural; Medium: Photographic print

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