It dawned on me that after I had posted about the major expansion to the Central Post Office, I have never actually posted about the original building, opened in 1935. I’d even featured the murals on the interior back in 2011.

Designed by Klipstein and Rathmann, who also designed the Eighteenth Street Parking Garage from yesterday as well as the Civil Courts and Bevo Bottling Plant, among many other buildings around town, it is a classic example of late, or terminal Classical Revival or Beaux Arts style in America, just as Modernism began to take over.

And of course, this is the site of the former Winkelmeyer Brewery, and yes, those cellars are still down there!

This is the post office famous for having dozens of customer service windows in the main lobby, and now you’ll find one open, and you have to ring a buzzer to summon an employee. Times have changed.