St. Paul’s United States Post Office and Custom House sit above the Mississippi River at 180 Kellogg Boulevard East. Located next to Union Depot and the city’s bushiness district, the facility was at the center of the city’s postal operations for much of the glorious twentieth century. When the original building was completed in 1934, critics across the land hailed the new post office as a great modern achievement. This St. Paul landmark facilitated the expansion of a wide variety of post office and federal operations in St. Paul. The 17 story building, completed in 1934 with major additions in 1939 and 1961, served as the main distribution center for our region until 2010. The last postal operations moved out in early 2013. That same year, the iconic building was purchased for redeveloped as an apartment building.
