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The Cedar Rapids Post Office and Public Building, also known as the Witwer Building, is an historic building located in downtown
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Cedar Rapids () is the second-largest city in Iowa, United States and is the county seat of Linn County, Iowa, Linn County. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River (Iowa River), Cedar River, north of Iowa City, Iowa, Iowa City and north ...
, United States. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 2015 it was included as a
contributing property In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distri ...
in the Cedar Rapids Central Business District Commercial Historic District.


History

The building was completed in 1908 and served as a post office and federal building. The federal government sold the building to Weaver Witwer in 1932 after the new federal courthouse was built on First Street. The first floor housed Witwer's Farm Market and the Me Too Grocery Store and the upper floors housed offices for Witwer's various operations. The store closed in the mid 1960s and Witwer bequeathed the building to Linn County in 1970. It was renovated several times between 1972 and 1989. Before the Cedar River flood in 2008 the building housed several county offices, including Linn County Community Services, Mental Health and Developmental Disability, General Assistance, Protective Payee and State of Iowa juvenile probation offices. It also housed the Witwer Senior Center, which was a non-county organization. The county sold the building to an
Iowa City Iowa City, offically the City of Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is the home of the University of Iowa and county seat of Johnson County, at the center of the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the time ...
developer in 2010 for $570,004.


See also

* List of United States post offices


References

{{NRHP in Cedar Rapids, Iowa National Register of Historic Places in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa Renaissance Revival architecture in Iowa Government buildings completed in 1908 Buildings and structures in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Iowa