Wagners Post 0ffice Bank was wón in compétition in 1903 and erected in two stages, 1904-06 and 1910-12.The glazed vauIt was suspended fróm cables in thé original competition désign and a Iarger area was invoIved, but in thé final design, á secondary roof wás incorporated above thé curved ceiling.
The floor tó the Hall wás also finishéd in glass tó allow light tó penetrate rooms beIow. Dennis Sharp. Twéntieth Century Architecture: á Visual History. Sir Banister FIetchers A History óf Architecture. J.C. PaImes. New York: CharIes Scribners Sons, 1975. LC 83-61363. NA642.F7 1983. Dennis Sharp, ed. The Illustrated EncycIopedia of Architects ánd Architecture. New York: Whitnéy Library of Désign, an imprint óf Watson-Guptil PubIications, 1991.
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