The Terre Haute Post Office and Federal Building is a historic structure in

Terre Haute, Indiana Terre Haute ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, about 5 miles east of the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,785 and its metropolitan area had a ...

. The first post office and federal building at this site opened in 1887. When this building was demolished in 1933, work began on the current structure. (The columns and pediment from the first post office now make up part of the Chauncey Rose Memorial in Terre Haute's Fairbanks Park.) The current building was funded as Public Work Project under the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The three-story Art Deco-style post office was built 1934 to the designs of Terre Haute-based architects Miller & Yeager for the cost of around $450,000."Questionnaire for Architects' Roster and/or Register of Architects Qualified for Federal Public Works June 13, 1946. Completed on December 1, 1934, the building opened to the public in 1935. It originally was home to the post office, the Social Security Administration, the

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and the federal court. The federal courtroom features a mural by Frederick Webb Ross titled "The Signing of the Magna Carta." ''Note:'' This includes and The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. In 2007, the

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turned over the facility to Indiana State; following a $30-million dollar, multi-year renovation; the building became the new home of the Indiana State University Scott College of Business. The first classes were held during the Fall 2012 semester.

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Federal buildings in the United States Post office buildings in Indiana Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Terre Haute, Indiana Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Government buildings completed in 1934 1930s architecture in the United States Art Deco architecture in Indiana 1934 establishments in Indiana {{VigoCountyIN-NRHP-stub

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