{"id":706,"date":"2014-02-20T21:45:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T21:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/?p=706"},"modified":"2014-04-22T22:10:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T22:10:46","slug":"old-post-office-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2014\/02\/20\/old-post-office-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Post Office Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-706 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2014\/02\/20\/old-post-office-building\/41076-118899-carissa-signore-apr-22-2013-1240-pm-old-post-office\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/914\/2014\/02\/41076-118899-Carissa-Signore-Apr-22-2013-1240-PM-old-post-office.jpg?w=150&amp;h=150&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-578\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-578'>\n\t\t\t\tOld Post Office, 1939\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/f-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/914\/2014\/04\/Old-Post-Office-Current.jpg?w=150&amp;h=150&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1206\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1206'>\n\t\t\t\tOld Post Office, 2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>By Carissa Signore<\/p>\n<p>The old Akron post office building was constructed in 1899 in old Italian Renaissance Revival Style, designed by architect James Knox Taylor who had already designed countless post offices around the United States as well as the Ellis Island Hospital building.\u00a0The post office was rebuilt in 1927 after the city\u2019s population outgrew the space and it needed to be enlarged.\u00a0The new building, located at current 168 E. Market St., housed the post office as well as the Internal Revenue Department, military recruiting offices and customs offices.\u00a0The post office moved again in 1975 to its current location on Wolf\u2019s Ledges.\u00a0The old building became part of the new Akron Art Museum after it moved from across the street due to lack of room.\u00a0The building still remains the same as when the museum took it over.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Carissa Signore The old Akron post office building was constructed in 1899 in old Italian Renaissance Revival Style, designed by architect James Knox Taylor who had already designed countless post offices around the United States as well as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2014\/02\/20\/old-post-office-building\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36282],"tags":[7160,36294,36358,36302],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-downtown","tag-akron","tag-downtown-2","tag-post-office-building","tag-walking-tour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}