Interesting Post Office Stories | 1930s post office turned into a luxurious, comfortable place to live

  1930s post office turned into a luxurious, comfortable place to live

"...Inside, though, the building Sarah purchased for $162,000 was drab. Many of the rooms were painted top to bottom in post-office blue. Hideous linoleum or tough rubber padding was glued to most of the floors. But the PO retained enough period details—including terra-cotta floor tiles, marble baseboards, and pink granite wall slabs—that Sarah was convinced to take the rehab project on. She preserved many of these details in the former lobby, which now serves as an entry parlor and formal living area. The original 16-foot ceilings were lowered by 2 feet to conceal pipes and conserve energy. ...claimed the old postmaster’s office as her own, keeping its stenciled, pebbled-glass door. ...Owner Sarah Belhasen turned a part of the old post-office loading dock into a veranda, with the addition of French doors and a concrete balustrade."

Reference: www.thisoldhouse.com