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Main Post Office in Jakarta

building in Central Jakarta, Indonesia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ106280289 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Main Post and Telegraph Office, formerly Weltevreden Postkantoor and Filateli Jakarta is now Pos Bloc, it is a historic building in Weltevreden, Jakarta, Indonesia. It was designed by J van Hoytema and built in 1913. It is located next to St. Ursula Catholic School and near the Jakarta Cathedral and Istiqlal Mosque (Independence Mosque).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Main Post Office in Jakarta” as building in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Main, Post and Office.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1913—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Main, Post and Office providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Main Post Office in Jakarta”, the useful work is to connect “building in Central Jakarta, Indonesia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q106280289. Authority coordinates are -6.168, 106.835. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1913.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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This entry incorporates text from “Main Post Office in Jakarta” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.