This article considered the building of the Nagoya Post Telegraph Office which suffered by the Nobi earthquake of 1891, and it is following points that become clear.
The Yuubin Yakusyo Office was established under the modern system for the first time at Nagoya in 1871 and the Nagoya Telegraph Office was installed in the neighboring site in 1882. And both stations were merged in 1886 and become the Nagoya Post Telegraph Office and are the Office which the building built in Sakae-mati in 1888 considered at this time. In addition, the building was considered to be completion by an estimate conventionally in January, 1888.
There was not the established theory conventionally about time of the construction start of the Nagoya Post Telegraph Office to treat in this report. But, according to the newspaper report, in the Nagoya Post Telegraph Office, the preparations for reconstruction have already begun in July, 1884. And the falsework had been already started in December, 1886, the completion ceremony was held on January 28, 1888. The designer of the Nagoya Post Telegraph Office was considered to be Sadati Sitijiro conventionally. But as for the employment to Ministry of Communications and Transportation of Sadati from February, 1887, Judging from progress of the construction, it is proper to think that the design of the Nagoya Post Telegraph Office was accomplished before the employment of Sadati. In addition, Sadati was concerned with construction control, but it can be determined to have been engaged in the construction for a long time with Noguti Yosinobu. The construction form of the Nagoya Postal Telecommunications Bureau has not been clear before, but it became clear that this work was done at the contract of the Okura-gumi. J. Condor reported with the Nagoya Kentiku Kaisya in “AN ARCHITECT’S NOTES ON THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE OF OCTOBER, 1891.”, and I confirmed the construction of the company from a newspaper article. Condor did not mention the brick used for the Nagoya Post Telegraph Office, but it becomes clear that this used the brick made from the newspaper report in the Gifuken Kangoku. 1 million bricks and 200,000 pieces of roof tiles were delivered to the Nagoya Post Telegraph Office by the Gifuken Kangoku. The construction cost of the Nagoya Post Telegraph Office was 29,260.165 yen, and the tsubo unit price was 71.55 yen, this was low price of 6-7000 yen than the original budget.
