BLAIR HISTORICAL LANDMARK

   Contact Us!

HOME PAGE

Old Post Office
a.k.a. School Administration Building
Built:  1901  (source Wash. Co. History Book)
Located:  Lincoln & 16th Street

Noted Architectural Specimen
  Related Links 
u
It was designed by James Knox Taylor. Taylor's education and early practice was in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1897 he became the supervising architect of the U.S. Treasury.   Other buildings in Nebraska that Taylor Designed are:  U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Norfolk (1902 ), Post Office in Kearney (1911),

Denver Mint

 

The old Post Office building was preserved when it was transferred to the local school district to be used as an administration building.


Post Office & Staff

POF-0009

 

research Link

  

 

 

Photos
Click image to enlarge.


Old Post Office

 

Old Post Office
 
 
 

Copyright © 2008 Blair Historic Preservation Alliance.  All rights reserved.
contact@BlairHistory.com

Taylor, James Knox  
    Bellingham Federal Building/Post Office (Bellingham, WA)
    Custom House (Portland, OR)
    C. Bascom Slemp Federal Building (Big Stone Gap, VA)
    Durward G. Hall FB/Courthouse (Joplin, MO)
    Edward T. Gignoux US Courthouse (Portland, ME)
    Elbert Parr Tuttle U.S. Court of Appeals (Atlanta, GA)
    Federal Building (Albuquerque, NM)
    Federal Building (Alpena, MI)
    Federal Building (Bismarck, ND)
    Federal Building/US Courthouse (Anniston, AL)
    Federal Building/US Courthouse (Bowling Green, KY)
    Federal Building/US Courthouse (Butte, MT)
    Federal Building/US Courthouse (Eau Claire, WI)
    Federal Building/US Courthouse (Gadsden, AL)
    Federal Building/US Courthouse (Grand Forks, ND)
    Federal Building/US Courthouse (London, KY)
    Federal Building/US Courthouse (Macon, GA)
    Federal Building/US Courthouse (Selma, AL)
    Federal Building/USPO (Spokane, WA)
    Federal Building/USPO/Courthouse (Eureka, CA)
    Federal Building/USPO/Courthouse (Missoula, MT)
    Federal Building/USPO/Courthouse (Owensboro, KY)
    Frank E. Moss Courthouse (Salt Lake City, UT)
    O.C. Fisher FB/Courthouse (San Angelo, TX)
    US Courthouse (Tampa, FL)
    US Custom House (Houston, TX)
James Knox Taylor
Born: 10/11/1857, Died: 1929

Former Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury, James Knox Taylor was born in Knoxville, IL, to H. Knox
and Mary (Young) Taylor. He attended public schools in St. Paul, MN, and the two-year special course
offered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1877-1879) before moving to New York City, where
he worked in the offices of Charles Haight and Bruce Price. In 1882 he returned to St. Paul and worked in
partnership with Cass Gilbert as Gilbert & Taylor, a firm which produced the Endicott Building (according to
Taylor's letter of application for a U.S. Treasury position, 5 September 1893). This enterprise continued for
some 10 years, and Taylor moved to Philadelphia, the former home of his wife Adele Chambers Taylor,
where he entered into a partnership with Amos J. Boyden, another MIT graduate whom he had probably
met through their mutual activities in the AIA.

Boyden & Taylor were in operation only a year when Taylor applied for a position as a "first class
draftsman" in the office of the Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury, stating that the "general financial
depression" then current made it difficult for him to support his family any longer in the Boyden & Taylor
partnership. By 1895 Taylor had relocated to Washington, D.C., as a temporary draftsman, but continued
to be listed in the Philadelphia city directories under Boyden & Taylor through 1898. In October 1897, as a
result of a competitive civil service exam, Taylor was made Supervising Architect for the U.S. Treasury, a
position in which he remained until 1912, when he returned to MIT as a professor of architecture. He
resigned from MIT in 1914, returned briefly to Philadelphia and then settled in Tampa, FL, where he was
residing at his death.

Written by Sandra L. Tatman.
http://www.preservemandan.org/JKTaylor.html