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POST Houston is an entertainment venue in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States which was formerly a major regional post office - then known as Houston Downtown Post Office. The sorting facility was renamed to honor Barbara Jordan. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The U.S. Custom House occupies an entire block in the central business district of Houston, Texas. It was built as a post office and courthouse between 1907 and 1911 and later converted to use as the custom house. During this period, urban post offices often shared a building with courts and other federal offices.
Several United States post offices are individually notable and have operated under the authority of the United States Post Office Department (1792–1971) or the United States Postal Service (since 1971). Notable U.S. post offices include individual buildings, whether still in service or not, which have architectural or community-related ...
The Sam B. Hall Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse, formerly known as the Marshall Federal Building and U.S. Post Office, was built in 1915.It is a Classical Revival building designed by Oscar Wenderoth (supervising architect) and George Shaul.
Turns out the states had separate post offices until 1892, when the first joint post office was built on the state line. The current structure, completed in 1933, features Texas pink granite and ...
Harris County Constable Precinct 7 has its offices in Palm Center. [15] [16] A branch of the Harris County Tax Office is in the same complex. [17] There is a U.S. post office and an office of Neighborhood Centers, Inc. within Palm Center. [18] The Houston Business Development, Inc. (HBD) and the Business Information Center (BIC) are in Palm ...
The United States Postal Service previously operated a 16-acre (65,000 m 2) Houston Post Office at 401 Franklin Street. [127] The building, named after Barbara Jordan, was designed by the architects who designed the Houston Astrodome, opened in 1962 and received its current name in 1984. [128] When it was a post office it had mail sorting machines.
The initial 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) retail and office development centered around Greenspoint Mall was a project of the Friendswood Development Company during the 1970s and early 1980s. [3] Greenspoint is one of Houston's major business districts, with 10.82 million square feet (1.005 million square metres) of office space. [4]