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Veterans of Foreign Wars Building, 1941The property at the corner of Elm and Broad Street formerly belonged to William H. Filley, a prominent Windsor dairy farmer and businessman. In 1939 the US Government purchased the site for $14,000 and razed the Filley homestead in order to erect a new post office building for the Town of Windsor. The classic colonial design featured a brick and stone facade, large windows, and an ornamental eagle over the doorway. The public lobby extending across the front of the building had five service windows and 250 lock boxes. Behind the lobby was a deep work room for sorting the mail, a "swing room" for off duty postal workers, and a 31-foot- long mailing platform.
Pageantry marked Dedication Day on April 26, 1941. A sack of mail including specially-designed first day covers and postcards was picked up at the Windsor Historical Society, the location of Windsor's first post office, and transported by stagecoach to the new post office on Broad Street. There the mail was stamped with a unique cancellation mark.
Post-war Windsor was a rapidly growing community, and the postal services operations again needed more space. The present post office building on the east side of Broad Street Green opened in 1963. For continuity, the three wooden bas relief sculptures of tobacco workers were moved to the new building and remounted over the postal boxes.
The Raymond B. McHugh Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was organized at the end of World War II. The group used the columned Greek Revival homestead of Col. Philip Remington at the foot of Stony Hill as their post headquarters for nearly twenty years. By the mid-1960s the group had grown to 650 members. In April 1964 the VFW unit took possession of the vacated post office building and began to make alterations to suit their needs. Just a few weeks later a roaring fire destroyed the Remington House. Since dedicating their new home in July 1965, this veterans' service organization and its Ladies Auxiliary have been active in the Windsor community. Copyright 2015 Windsor Historical Society.
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