As the Great Depression devastated Atlanta, construction of the Federal Post Office Annex boosted the local economy and civic pride. Supporters applauded the employment of 300 to 400 construction workers from 1932 to 1933 to build the $8 million postal facility, an equivalent of approximately $193 million today.

Civic leaders described the Federal Post Office Annex as “state of the art,” equipped to receive and distribute regional mail through underground tunnels connected to the now demolished Terminal Station. Project contractor, Great Lakes Construction Company of Chicago, praised the complex as “one of America’s finest public buildings” in a 1933 Atlanta Constitution advertisement. Atlanta architect Anthony Ten Eyck Brown (1878-1940) designed the Federal Post Office Annex in a strippe

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