Post Office Addition – West Chester PA

Description

The historic 1905-7 post office on Gay Street in West Chester, Pennsylvania received a rear addition (“annex”) that doubled its size during the New Deal era. Originally the main post office for West Chester, the long-serving facility is now known as the Gay Street Station post office.

Per culturechesco.org:

The next construction phase began thirty years later on October 26, 1935, when an annex was added to the rear of the structure nearly doubling its size. A one-foot setback can be seen about mid-point of the building where the back wall of the original Post Office was located. The outside materials and architecture of the new construction is nearly identical to the original, although one can notice a smattering of rock near the top with a blue hue, often called “Brandywine Blue”. It was completed about a year later at a cost of about $80,000 (more than $1.4-million in modern dollars). Victor Gondos of Reading (PA) was the contractor.