Old Post Office on Broadway, City Hall Park

The old Post Office Building, on the southern part of City Hall Park, looking north from Broadway, between 1900 and 1910. Park Row is on the right. Source: Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection (Library of Congress).

The old Post Office, designed by Alfred B. Mullett, was built between 1869 and 1880, and demolished in 1939. It replaced the Post Office that occupied, since 1844, the former Middle Dutch Church, located on the corner Nassau Street and Liberty Street.