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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: July 9, 2015
Caption: US Post Office & Customs House, Astoria, Oregon 97103
Additional Description: In 1847, the first post office west of the Rockies was established in Astoria by James Shively. The first U.S. Customs house was established in Astoria in 1849. The current building, constructed in 1933, is a two-story building on a raised basement. 11-bay front facade is divided by flat fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals supporting a full entablature, with a balustraded parapet above, and a red-tiled hipped roof rising behind that. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 under its historic name U.S. Post Office and Custom House
Submitted: January 21, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p413755
File Size: 4.874 Megabytes

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