U.S. Post Office-Valley City

Valley City, United States

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The U.S. Post Office in Valley City, North Dakota, was designed in 1915 and constructed during 1916–17 under the Office of the Supervising Architect, with James A. Wetmore overseeing the Classical Revival design in the spirit of James Knox Taylor. Built at a transitional moment when federal post office designs were beginning standardization, this Neoclassical structure notably resisted the standardized plans adopted nationally in 1915, maintaining instead the individuality and Beaux Arts principles of massing that characterized an earlier era of monolithic, imposing federal buildings. A local newspaper praised it in 1916 as "much more pretentious than most of the federal buildings that are being erected throughout the west when the size of the cities are taken into consideration," marking it as one of the last designs of its kind before post offices became uniform. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.