The Old United States Courthouse and Post Office building is a former post office and courthouse of the United States federal courts in

Frankfort, Kentucky Frankfort is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, United States, and the seat of Franklin County. It is a home rule-class city; the population was 28,602 at the 2020 census. Located along the Kentucky River, Frankfort is the prin ...

. Built during 1883 to 1887, the structure housed the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky from then until 1901 and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 1901 until it was succeeded. It was expanded with a rear wing in 1910 at which time interior offices were modified as well, to serve as a post office, which it did until 1965. In 1965 it housed the Paul Sawyier Library until 2008 when the library moved to the brick building next door. Today it is Downtown Annex for

Kentucky State University Kentucky State University (KSU and KYSU) is a Public university, public Historically black colleges and universities, historically black land-grant university in Frankfort, Kentucky. Founded in 1886 as the State Normal School for Colored Persons ...

. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The limestone building with a steeply sloped slate roof was designed in the Second Empire and

Châteauesque Châteauesque (or Francis I style,Whiffen, Marcus, ''American Architecture Since 1780: A guide to the styles'', The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1969, p. 142. or in Canada, the Château Style) is a Revivalist architectural style based on the Fr ...

styles. It is a three-story by building built of masonry load-bearing walls with timber beams and trusses. with

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Historic Federal Courthouses
page for the Frankfort, Kentucky, United States Court House and Post Office from the

Federal Judicial Center The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency of the United States federal courts. It was established by in 1967, at the recommendation of the Judicial Conference of the United States. According to , the main areas of respo ...

. Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky Government buildings completed in 1887 Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky Châteauesque architecture in the United States Former federal courthouses in the United States Renaissance Revival architecture in Kentucky National Register of Historic Places in Frankfort, Kentucky 1887 establishments in Kentucky Kentucky State University {{FranklinCountyKY-NRHP-stub

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