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Old Post Office

Built: 1901 (source Wash. Co. History Book)
Located: Lincoln & 16th Street

It was designed by James Knox Taylor. Taylor’s education and early practice was in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1897 he became the supervising architect of the U.S. Treasury. Other buildings in Nebraska that Taylor Designed are: U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Norfolk (1902 ), Post Office in Kearney (1911),

Denver Mint

Post office with staff

South Side of Building, located on the corner of Lincoln & 16th Street. Original Photo from the Kenneth & Virginia Rhoades. canned 2006 /Catalog No. PDF-0009

Post office looking to the northeast

Photo Post Card from the Nathan Krämer Collection/Catalog No. POF-0005o. PDF-0009

Blair Post Office

Blair Post Office c. 1913

Photo Post Card from the Nathan Krämer Collection/Catalog No. POF-0004

Blair Post Office

Post Office and Fire Station

On old Walker Avenue (16th Street) and Lincoln — Blair, Nebraska (c. 1925) Scan from Original from the Dana College Archive. Photo sent to College from Denmark by the son of Waldo B. Nielsen. Catalog No. POF-0006

Blair Post Office – details

A view from Walker Avenue

Blair Post Office (far left), Fire Hall (left), and Soldier’s Memorial monument (center.) Photo taken by A.E. Hanna Photo. c. 1925 Original Real Photo Post Card, from the Pat Tripp Collection. Scanned 2008/Catalog No. FHL-0009