The United States Post Office and Court House in

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, also known as Federal Building, is a federal building of the United States government completed in 1917 and located at 224 South Boulder Avenue. The supervising architect for both the original construction and a substantial extension completed in 1933 was

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. The building houses a post office and housed the

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from 1917 to 1925, when the districts were reconfigured and it became a courthouse of the Northern District of Oklahoma. OK-Tulsa 1917 1 Ref

Built in the

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style, the building has been described as "the postal beauty of the southwest… a marble, bronze and granite memorial to its builders".Tulsa Federal Building
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. It served historically as a post office, as a courthouse, and as a government office building.

History

The post office and courts relocated to the Page Belcher Federal Building, after it was completed. The former post office building was remodeled, then occupied by the Army Corps of Engineers in the mid 1960s. The building was remodeled again in 1996, after the Corps of Engineers moved to another location. It is now occupied by the U. S. Bankruptcy Court, the National Labor Relations Board and some district court judicial offices.The Federal Building
" TulsaGal Website, April 25, 2010. (accessed October 6, 2013) It was listed on the

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on March 24, 2000, as United States Post Office and Courthouse. The building was also identified as a contributing structure for the

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References

External links

Historic Federal Courthouses page
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Tulsa Federal Building
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