Photo: Haut commissariat de France pour l'Indochine · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
Post office · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Saigon Central Post OfficeSuspected
- Dated
- Dated 1886–91
- Declared purpose
- Post office
- Today
- Survives, still a post office
- Build time
- About 5 years
- Region
- Asia
- Architect of record
- Alfred Foulhoux, architect: about 46 when credited (1886, born 1840). Build time on record: about 5 years.All architects of record →
- On the list as
- Suspected
Why it's on the list
Often attributed to Gustave Eiffel's firm, while the record credits Alfred Foulhoux.
Hidden history
Found, Not Built
A French colonial post office with an iron vaulted hall, often attributed to Gustave Eiffel's firm.
Why researchers flag it
Often attributed to Gustave Eiffel's firm, while the record credits Alfred Foulhoux.
An Eiffel connection
It is often attributed to Gustave Eiffel's firm, though the record credits Alfred Foulhoux.
An iron vault
Its main hall is an iron vault like the exhibition halls.
Still a post office
It still works as a post office.
Questions worth asking
- Who really designed it?
Possible original uses
- Post office
What the photos show
P.T.T. - Bâtiment central, Saïgon (PV0008267)between 1920 and 1929dat · Public domain
195 cartes postales d'Inde, Birmanie, Indochine vers 1906, don Collin de Plancy en 1928 - btv1b53216123p (307 of 382)1906date QS:P571,+1906-0 · Public domain
Cochinchine Saïgon La poste - (...)Salles André btv1b5301320261895 · Public domain
20190923 Saigon Central Post Office-123 September 2019, 15:56 · CC0
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Sources
Further viewing
Episodes from My Lunch Break (Michael Kruse), the main lens for this app. They open on YouTube.
