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Can Anybody Help Identify This Building On A Dominican Republic Stamp?

 
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Posted 07/13/2025   07:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Ellie88 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
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I have purchased a lot of Dominican Republic stamps. Contained within this lot are two of these 10c airmail stamps depicting a building that I quite like the look of, and wanted to learn more about, however, I cannot find this building anywhere online, no matter how much I have searched, I have gotten no useful results. According to the stamp, the building is "Edificio De Correos Y Telegrafos" (which I think just means "Building of postage and telegraphs") located in San Cristobal, Trujillo Province (Now San Cristobal Province). Searching for this in either English or Spanish does not provide results of this building. I have tried reverse image searching, but Google AI is terrible and even says it "is a 9c stamp". I have even tried Streetview and only got frustrated.

Can anybody please find an image of this building?




Edit: I realise it is possible that this building may never have existed, as the Dominican republic issued stamps around this time depicted planned buildings that were to have been constructed, but either never were or took decades to even begin construction, such as Faro A Colon. It is also possible that, with this building being from the Trujillo-Era, it was demolished.
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Posted 07/13/2025   07:33 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It says

Building of
the Posts and
Telegraphs
San Cristóbal
Prov. of Trujillo

You might be correct that it has not been built. Alternatively, it may have been destroyed.
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Posted 07/13/2025   07:41 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add JLLebbert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I located this stamp on StampWorld ... the building is (or perhaps was?) the San Cristobal post office. I believe that it was a 1950 stamp. The San Cristobal post office has a website ... you can google it ... but didn't see any images of buildings on the site.
Correction: it is a 1941 stamp.
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Posted 07/13/2025   07:53 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Flightle_Bee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I blotted out everything but the building; Google says it's Radio Skopje! The Dominican Republic's Telecommunications Museum is built in a similar Modernist style, but that was constructed circa 2009-2011, so maybe they dusted off some old plans from the Trujillo era.
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Posted 07/13/2025   08:03 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Ellie88 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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The Dominican Republic's Telecommunications Museum is built in a similar Modernist style, but that was constructed circa 2009-2011, so maybe they dusted off some old plans from the Trujillo era.


@Flightle_Bee I think it is far more similar to The Palace of Communications, seen on this stamp. Is this another phantom building from the Trujillo era too?

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Posted 07/13/2025   09:47 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Snopes to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This Instagram post purports to show a "before and after" of the San Cristobal Post Office site. If it's accurate the now-demolished post office in San Cristobal did not look the same as the building on the stamp. It was much larger, for one thing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHqTP6CuUiz

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Posted 07/13/2025   10:18 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Ellie88 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
@NSK That has to be it. You can see the same corner steps and that tower-like structure on the left side, if only there was a way to see it from the ground view.
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Posted 07/13/2025   10:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Ellie88 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
@NSK Thank you for finding this video. I'm not sure how you did.


Quote:
The building exists


Yes, but that seems to be all it's doing right now, looks very much disused and in disrepair, what a shame for such a good looking building. I wonder if that was the original colour scheme.

Either way, I'm glad to know the building on this stamp not only did exist, but still currently exists, at least as of 30/10/24. I wish I could go to it and get good photographs of it myself.
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