National Register Listing

Anoka Post Office

300 E. Main St., Anoka, MN

The Anoka Post Office, the oldest extant public building in Anoka, is the city's most architecturally significant non-residential building.
The post office was designed and constructed in 1916 under the supervision of the Minnesota-born U.S. Government architect, James Knox Taylor. The building, which could serve as a textbook model of the Georgian Revival style, contains such Georgian Revival features as its rectangular plan, brick veneer, symmetrical facades, hipped roof, dentillated cornice, central pedimented doorway, and arched lintels with keystones.

The post office is currently privately owned. Its owners, Counselor Realty, are rehabilitating the building for office and commercial use.

Local significance of the building:
Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.