U.S. Post Office and Courthouse
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U.S. Courthouse (U.S. Post Office and Courthouse)
1929–1931, James A. Wetmore, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury; 1996 addition, Leonard Parker Associates with Mutchler Bartram Architects. 655–755 1st Ave. N
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(Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress) -
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Judicial Wing (Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress) -
(Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress)
This Renaissance Revival building, with its repetitive grand-order Ionic columns, balustraded parapet, and Indiana limestone exterior, originally contained post office functions, but now serves only judicial purposes. In the late 1980s there was an initiative to construct a new federal courts facility that would have eviscerated two or more blocks of N. Broadway commercial frontage. Instead a new judicial wing, named for North Dakota’s U.S. senator Quentin N. Burdick, was added to the existing building. The addition’s modernist design is appropriately sympathetic to the historic structure in a somewhat more restrained and severe manner than the original. Courtrooms are indicated by broad barrel vaults rising above the roof.
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Steve C. Martens and Ronald H. L. M. Ramsay, "U.S. Courthouse (U.S. Post Office and Courthouse)", [Fargo, North Dakota], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/ND-01-CS6.
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Buildings of North Dakota, Steve C. Martens and Ronald H. L. M. Ramsay. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 32-32.
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