National Register of Historic Places in Sonoma County

National Register #79000559: Old Post Office in Santa Rosa
5 June 2004
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National Register #79000559
Old Post Office
AKA US Government Post Office and Federal Building
425 7th Street
Santa Rosa
Built 1910

This Roman Renaissance Revival building was designed by James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect for the Treasury Department, and was completed in 1910. It was considered one of the finest buildings north of San Francisco.

The Old Post Office is now home to the Sonoma County Museum.

The Office of the Supervising Architect was an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings from 1852 until World War II.

1869: United States Mint, Carson City
1888: Federal Government Building, Carson City
1893: United States Post Office and Courthouse, San Francisco
1910: United States Post Office and Courthouse, Eureka
1910: United States Post Office and Federal Building, Santa Rosa

1912: United States Post Office, Chico
1915: United States Post Office, Berkeley
1915: United States Post Office and Courthouse, Medford
1932: United States Post Office, Marysville
1933: United States Post Office and Courthouse, Las Vegas

1933: United States Post Office and Federal Building, Modesto
1933: United States Post Office, Petaluma
1941: United States Post Office, Tonopah

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