The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in

Bismarck, North Dakota Bismarck () is the capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. It is the state's second-most populous city, after Fargo. The city's population was 73,622 in the 2020 census, while its metropolitan popula ...

, United States, was built during 1912–13 and expanded in 1937. It was designed by

James Knox Taylor James Knox Taylor (October 11, 1857 – August 27, 1929) was Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury from 1897 to 1912. His name is listed '' ex officio'' as supervising architect of hundreds of federal buildings ...

and includes

Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture In the United States, the National Register of Historic Places classifies its listings by various types of architecture. Listed properties often are given one or more of 40 standard architectural style classifications that appear in the National ...

and

Second Renaissance Revival architecture Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ...

. Also known as Federal Building, it served historically as a courthouse and as a post office. The building 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 1976. It is notable as one of the last works of

, who was

Supervising Architect The Office of the Supervising Architect was an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings from 1852 to 1939. The office handled some of the most important architectural commissions of the nineteenth ...

of the U.S. Treasury from 1897 until 1912. It is a three-story, steel-framed building with reinforced concrete floors and a red tile roof that can be seen from far away to the south. It was approximately wide (on Broadway) by deep (on Third Street) when completed in 1913, then deepened to in 1937. with

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Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota Former federal courthouses in the United States Government buildings completed in 1913 Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota Renaissance Revival architecture in North Dakota 1913 establishments in North Dakota National Register of Historic Places in Bismarck, North Dakota {{NorthDakota-NRHP-stub