Thanks for looking, PJ and Richard. These lamps look like they have been recently cleaned and polished. I doubt they will be allowed to fade into green patina, like these on the same building some time ago:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/Columns%2CLamps%2CArielRiosBldg.jpg Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Richard Dell <rd...@ptd.net> wrote: > The New Post Office, completed in 1934, > renamed the Ariel Rios Federal Building in 1985, > now the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building (in 2013) > > Supposedly some nice WPA murals inside, and a great spiral staircase. > > I wonder if those lamps are not gilt, but copper and not yet aged green, to > match > other lamps I see in architectural pictures. > > > On 6/8/2015 1:17 AM, P.J. Alling wrote: >> >> The EPA probably took over an edifice from a kinder gentler era. >> >> On 6/7/2015 9:26 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >>> >>> Quite ornate for a bureaucratic facility. Architectural detail of the >>> National Headquarters of the US Department of Environmental >>> Protection, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC: >>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18034691 >>> K-5 II S, D 18-135 ZOOM >>> Comments invited. >>> >>> Dan Matyola >>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>> >> >> > > > -- > Richard Dell > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
