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Oscar Wenderoth (1871-1938), Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department, patterned the United States Post Office, Berkeley, on Filippo Brunelleschi's Italian Renaissance masterpiece, the Ospedale degli Innocenti, (Foundling Hospital), in the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Italy, (1419-1424). Like the Ospedale, the Berkeley Post Office had a two-story form (topped with a tile roof), with nearly the entire front facade marked by an expansive, first-floor loggia. Above the loggia, a simple course with classical ornamentation separated the first floor from the austere, evenly-spaced row of windows illuminating the second-floor.