Stunning Architecture

This is a stunning building that I have photographed before, but this morning it had perfect light on it! This is the James A. Farley building, which once was the U.S. General Post Office Building, which had been designed by McKim, Meade & White in the Beaux-Arts style.  It was constructed between 1911 and 1914.  It was right across 8th Avenue from the original Pennsylvania Station, and now Madison Square Garden.  The main facade of this building features a Corinthian colonade finishing at a pavilion at each end designed to match the original Pennsylvania Station across the street, which was demolished in 1966.  That demolition was a terrible loss for the architecture of New York City.  Oh, and this is where the famous United States Postal Service creed is carved into the stone above the whole length of the columns: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."  How cool it was to notice that today!