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| location = [[Miami, Florida|Miami]], [[Florida]]
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| added = January 4, 1989
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The '''Old U.S. Post Office and Courthouse''' is a historic [[courthouse]] in [[Miami, Florida|Miami]], [[Florida]]. It is located at 100-118 Northeast 1st Avenue. Constructed over three years (1912–14), it was designed by [[Kiehnel and Elliott]] and [[Oscar Wenderoth]]. It was added to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[National Register of Historic Places]] on January 4, 1989.<ref>[http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/FL/Dade/state3.html National Register - Miami-Dade County listings] Retrieved on July 31, 2010</ref> The Miami-Dade County Tax Records say this building was built in 1917
.<ref>[http://gisims2.miamidade.gov/myhome/propmap.asp Miami-Dade County Tax Records] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081104044435/http://gisims2.miamidade.gov/myhome/propmap.asp |date=2008-11-04 }} Retrieved on July 31, 2010</ref>
In August, 1914, the Miami Weather Bureau Office was relocated from the Bank of Bay Biscayne Building to the third floor of the old federal building.<ref>{{cite web|last=Pfost|first=Russell|title=NWS WFO Miami, FL history page|url=http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/?n=floridahistorypage|publisher=National Weather Service, Miami, FL|accessdate=2012-06-15}}</ref> Weather instruments were installed on the roof of the building. Richard Gray (1874-1960) was the Official-in-Charge. It was from this location that the warnings from the Weather Bureau Central Office in Washington were disseminated for the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 and the Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928. The Miami Weather Bureau Office remained on the third floor from 1914 to 1929, although the weather instruments were moved to the [[Seybold Building]] in 1927.
[[File:Old Miami Federal Bldg ca 1917 showing weather instruments.jpg|thumb|Old Miami Federal Building circa 1917, showing weather instruments]]
Dr. William Homer Walker created First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Miami in 1933, when he acquired the first federal savings and loan charter ever issued in the United States. The original name of the institution was the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Miami. Because it had outgrown two former locations, Walker purchased the abandoned Miami Post Office and Federal Court Building in May 1937 to house his savings and loan. In 1973 the bank moved to the thirty-two story First Federal Building, later known as the AmeriFirst Building and now known as [[SunTrust International Center|'''One Downtown''']],<ref>{{Cite web |title=One Downtown in Miami {{!}} Premier Offices in the heart of Downtown |url=https://www.onedowntown.com/ |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=One Downtown in Miami {{!}}  Premier Offices in the heart of Downtown |language=en-US}}</ref> at One Southeast 3rd Avenue in downtown Miami.<ref>[http://historymiamiarchives.org/guides/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=3&q=amerifirst HistoryMiami: Guide to AmeriFirst Bank Records] Retrieved on August 13, 2011</ref>
== See also ==
*[[List of United States post offices]]
== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/FL/Dade/state3.html Dade County listings] at [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com National Register of Historic Places]
* [http://www.flheritage.com Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140927013641/http://www.flheritage.com/facts/reports/places/index.cfm?fuseaction=ListAreas&county=Dade Dade County listings]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20070310221730/http://www.flheritage.com/services/sites/fht/record_t.cfm?ID=188&type=c&index=13 Old US Post Office and Courthouse]
* [http://www.jud10.org/Courthouses/Miami-Dade/miami-dade.html Miami-Dade County Courthouse]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at [https://web.archive.org/web/20091217205332/http://www.jud10.org/Courthouses/courts.htm Florida's Historic Courthouses]
* Florida's Historic Courthouses by Hampton Dunn ({{ISBN|0-9653759-5-1}})
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[[Category:Buildings and structures in Miami]]
[[Category:Courthouses in Florida]]
[[Category:Post office buildings in Florida]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Miami]]
[[Category:Government buildings completed in 1914]]
[[Category:Kiehnel and Elliott buildings]]