Lost Art Press

Old Post Office 1:2000 Scale Model

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While you can’t see the inside of Washington, D.C.’s Old Post Office building (and Calvin Cobb’s clocktower workshop) until renovations are complete, for $1.50, you can have your own model.

And in fewer than two months, you can “see” the inside of the building through the eyes of “Calvin Cobb: Radio Woodworker!”

— Megan Fitzpatrick

p.s. Check out the other postcard scale models from Wurlington Press, too – cool.

6 thoughts on “Old Post Office 1:2000 Scale Model”

  1. Hi Megan,

    The glass roof over the courtyard, as dipicted in the model, was not added until the late ’70’s, I believe. Just to note so that it doesn’t get depicted in artwork for the book.

    Dan

    1. Indeed there are! The Bells of Congress, given to the U.S. by England to celebrate our bicentennial. I’ve read they ring on Federal Holidays, Days of National Mourning, the Opening and Closing of Congress.

    2. Daniel,
      Since we are getting technical I must point out that in order to be properly called a clock a timepiece must strike the hours on a bell (german=glock, french =cloche) A bell tower would not be coupled with a timepiece but only have bells in it. I suppose if the timepiece is not coupled to the bells it could be both???

      1. There’s a building. It used to be a post office. It has a tower. There are clocks. There are bells. And there are animal patterns in the marble (oh dear…maybe I wasn’t supposed to give that last bit away…)

  3. I am shocked as much as you are, but, I am wrong. I had always thought the glass roof was added during the renovations in the late ’70’s. I believe everything I read on the internet, including Wikipedia and the Lost Art Press blog, and the atrium, according to Wiki, was part of the original design and the bells were not. So we can’t call it a clocktower, as Mike points out, because the clock didn’t ring any bells. I don’t feel like calling it a bell tower anymore because the bells are a recent addition (unless you are a kid and consider 1976 ancient history). So, call it whatever the hell you want. I’m going to have a beer and get naked!

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