Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Building, Federal office building in Atlanta, United States.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building is a classical-style building completed in 1933 for the United States Postal Service, now used as offices by the United States Federal Government. It stands on Spring Street next to the former Terminal Station site, and it is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The building was constructed in 1933 as a post office during an era of federal expansion across the nation. Its purpose and tenants shifted over the decades as government needs evolved and agencies reorganized.
The building received its present name in 1988, renaming a 1933 federal post office after Martin Luther King Jr., who was born in Atlanta in 1929. The name links a New Deal-era federal structure to the city's civil rights history.
The building stands on Spring Street, next to the former site of Terminal Station, in downtown Atlanta. It is a working federal office building, so interior access is limited to staff and escorted visitors who pass through security screening; the exterior can be viewed from the sidewalk at any time.
Mail arrived by rail at Terminal Station next door on Spring Street and was moved into the building through tunnels, since the railroads then carried most long-distance mail. The 2012 renovation by the General Services Administration followed current green building criteria as far as possible.
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