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The Kingfisher Post Office, also known as The Old Post Office, is the historic former post office in
Kingfisher, Oklahoma Kingfisher is a city in and the county seat of Kingfisher County, Oklahoma,. The population was 4,903 at the time of the 2020 census. It is the former home and namesake of Kingfisher College. According to the ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History ...
. The post office was built by the Dieter & Wenzil Co. of
St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...
; work on the building began on October 1, 1912, and finished on September 1, 1913. The stucco building has a red-tile
hipped roof A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus, ...
and
cornice In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian ''cornice'' meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a ...
s on each side. The post office operated until a larger post office opened in 1976. The post office was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1978.


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* Buildings and structures in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma Post office buildings in Oklahoma Government buildings completed in 1913 Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma 1913 establishments in Oklahoma National Register of Historic Places in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-NRHP-stub