U.S. Post Office and Courthouse - Cincinnati, Ohio
Posted by: BruceS
N 39° 06.103 W 084° 30.667
16S E 715221 N 4331013
United States Courthouse in Cincinnati.
Waymark Code: WM3N0B
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 04/22/2008
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The U.S. POST OFFICE AND COURTHOUSE extends from Main to Walnut Sts. on
the N. side of Fifth St. Completed in 1939, this modern 9-story structure
is built of Indiana limestone and rests on a granite base. The long
concourse is in tile, with chrome and marble trim, and the glass writing tables
have fancy golden legs. In addition to the post office, the building
houses the federal court for the Cincinnati district, recruiting offices of the
Army and Navy, a Federal Bureau of Investigation office, and field offices for
the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Interior, Justice, Labor,
Treasury, and other agencies. The present structure stand so the site of
the architecturally noteworthy French Renaissance Federal building that was
begun in 1874. ~ From Cincinnati: A Guide to the Queen City and its
Neighbors, 1943, Tour 5, pg. 181.
The building is now occupied almost entirely by federal court offices.
The post office left the building in 1992 and other federal offices left the
building when a new federal building was built in 1962. The courthouse is
now occupied by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, The U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and U.S. Bankruptcy Court for
the Southern District Court of Ohio. The courthouse is now named Potter
Stewart U.S. Courthouse in honor of former Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court who had served as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Sixth Circuit.