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U.S. Court House and Post Office, Frankfort, Ky., James G. Hill, Supervising Architect [exterior] – Historic Print

U.S. Court House and Post Office, Frankfort, Ky., James G. Hill, Supervising Architect [exterior] — historic image
U.S. Court House and Post Office, Frankfort, Ky., James G. Hill, Supervising Architect [exterior]. Historic image from the Courthouses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: U.S. Court House and Post Office, Frankfort, Ky., James G. Hill, Supervising Architect [exterior], preserved in this historic image. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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U.S. Court House and Post Office, Frankfort, Ky., James G. Hill, Supervising Architect [exterior]

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Frankfort, the Kentucky state capital, is the setting for this 1882 design for a combined federal courthouse and post office, and the image is a photolithograph of an architectural drawing by R. H. Atkinson. The drawing was reproduced in an official report, which suggests the design was circulated to document federal building work under the Treasury Department's Office of the Supervising Architect, then headed by James G. Hill. Buildings that housed a federal court and a post office under one roof were a common model for federal construction in that period, so this print shows both a specific Kentucky project and a wider government building program.

Medium1 item.
Notes1882
SubjectsPhotolith. of arch. drawing by R. H. Atkinson. Illus. in: Report..., p. 10. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Arch.--Drawings...; Ky.--F-; Post offices--Ky; Court houses--Ky.; Arch. Colls.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,088 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134261

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