City Hall Park, Post Office Construction

Original title: Excavating for the foundation of the New York City Post-Office Building. Illustration from Harper's Weekly, October 23, 1869, "Photographed by Rockwood". Broadway in on the left and Park Row is on the right.

Text published in the magazine: «Our illustration on page 676 gives an accurate and comprehensive view of the site of the new Post-office Building in this city, and of the excavations now being made for the foundation of the edifice. The site is in the City Park in front of the City Hall. The work of excavation is going on rapidly. By the first of this month 18,000 cubic yards had been excavated, and over 16,000 cubic feet of concrete, and nearly 17,000 feet of masonry had been completed. In order to bank up the sides of the excavations and protect it from caving under pressure or from influence of the weather, there had to be built over one thousand linear feet of sheathing and shoring, leaving nearly nine hundred feet more to be put up. The structure, under the supervision of Postmaster P. H. Jones, and Superintendent Hulburd, will, it is hoped, be speedily completed.»

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