Old Post Office
719 8th Street
Baldwin City, Ks 66006

Old Post Office
719 8th Street
Baldwin City, Ks 66006

It appears that this building was constructed after John Moorhead bought the property from J.G. Schnebly in 1892. The valuation increased from $200.00 to $575.00 in 1893. The building was a post office and office with a printing shop in the rear and a hall on the second floor. The post office was located here until after 1927. When the building was illustrated in the 1908 Souvenir, it had a Romanesque rather than the present classical facade.

Commercial block in row, rectangle with recessed central entrance, two stories, three first floor bays and two second floor bays., brick front with rubble stone sidewalls, flat roof and parapet. Second floor facade has recessed tan brick panels with ornamental header courses framing window openings, carved stone capitals ornament the cornice ends, stone blocks ornament the eave cornice. Storefront altered with wood frame and plywood modern display windows and entrance door.

Dale Nimz, photographer

Baldwin City Public Library

Fall 1988

Sanborn maps, 1893-1928
County assessment records, 1886-1928

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