Title	[Post office]
Date	1913
Subject headings	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Topics	Teachers UNCG Foust (Julius I.) Building
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This photograph shows the Campus Post Office located in the basement of the Administration Building from 1910 to 1932. The photograph appeared in the Carolinian 1913 on page eiighty-four. Prior to 1910, mail was distributed through the dormitories. In 1910, a lock-box Post Office was installed in the basement of Administration Building. In 1932, in a general reorganization of the campus after the library fire of September, 1932, the Post Office moved to the Students’ Building until it was razed in 1949. In 1949, the Post Office was located in the basement of South Spencer Residence Hall until it moved to the Elliott Student Union in 1953. For a time, mail was distributed through locked boxes in the dormitories, but after the Dining Halls were renovated in1987/1988, post office boxes were added to the Atrium, which remains the main point of distribution.
Type	Image
Original format	Photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	UA104 Photographic Prints Collection
Series/grouping	3: Buildings, Grounds, and Views
Folder	6: Administration Building (Administration Drive) - Post Office
Folder description	This building, designed by Epps & Hackett of Greensboro, North Carolina, opened in 1892. Two flanking wings were added in 1895. From 1892 to 1908, the building was called Main Building and from 1908 to 1960 it was called Administration Building. From 1910 until 1932, a lock-box Post Office was installed in the basement of the building. In 1960, the building was named in honor of Julius Isaac Foust, president of College from 1906 to 1934. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	ua104.3.006.001
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
OCLC number	872131546

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