Old United States Post Office and Courthouse, Historic federal building in Miami, United States
The Old United States Post Office and Courthouse is a three-story government building in Miami, Florida, with a Neo-Classical design of brick, concrete, and stone details. The front has tall columns and large windows, while the roof is covered in red Spanish tiles with wide eaves that shade the walls.
Construction took place over a few years in the 1910s, making this one of the first major federal buildings in the young city of Miami. The post office and court later moved out, and in 1937 the structure was sold to the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Miami.
Today the building functions as the Miami Center for Architecture and Design, where people come to see exhibits about local buildings and urban change. This gives visitors a way to connect with Miami's growth while standing inside one of its earliest federal landmarks.
Visitors can walk around the outside on Northeast 1st Avenue and look up at the columns and tiled roof without needing any appointment. Inside, the ground floor now houses cultural and welcome spaces that are open to the public during regular downtown business hours.
For about fifteen years, the building's third floor held the Miami Weather Bureau, where hurricane warnings were sent out. From the roof, instruments measured the sky, and this site was the origin of storm alerts during severe weather in 1926 and 1928.
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