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Old United States Courthouse and Post Office (Frankfort, Kentucky)

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Old United States Courthouse and Post Office Frankfort Kentucky
Old United States Courthouse and Post Office Frankfort Kentucky

The Old United States Courthouse and Post Office building is a former post office and courthouse of the United States federal courts in Frankfort, Kentucky. Built during 1883 to 1887, the structure housed the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky from then until 1901 and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 1901 until it was succeeded. It was expanded with a rear wing in 1910 at which time interior offices were modified as well, to serve as a post office, which it did until 1965. In 1965 it housed the Paul Sawyier Library until 2008 when the library moved to the brick building next door. Today it is Downtown Annex for Kentucky State University. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.The limestone building with a steeply sloped slate roof was designed in the Second Empire and Châteauesque styles. It is a three-story 54 feet (16 m) by 94 feet (29 m) building built of masonry load-bearing walls with timber beams and trusses.

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Old United States Courthouse and Post Office (Frankfort, Kentucky)
Saint Clair Street, Frankfort

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Saint Clair Street 226-230
40601 Frankfort
Kentucky, United States
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Central Frankfort Historic District
Central Frankfort Historic District

The Central Frankfort Historic District in Frankfort, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.The district includes 401 resources (buildings, structures, objects, sites) on 126 acres (51 ha). It is roughly bounded by East and West 2nd St., Logan St., the Kentucky River, High St., and Mero St.The district was created to merge and expand upon previously listed historic resources. It includes all of: Liberty Hall (Frankfort, Kentucky), NRHP-listed in 1971, and a National Historic Landmark Old Governor's Mansion, NRHP-listed in 1971 Old Statehouse, NRHP-listed in 1971 Old U.S. Court House & Post Office, NRHP-listed in 1974 Corner in Celebrities Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1971 Old Statehouse Historic District (Frankfort, Kentucky), NRHP-listed in 1980 Frankfort Commercial Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1982 with additional documentation in 2008.It also includes portions of Second Street and Shelby Street within the South Frankfort Neighborhood Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1982, which contains the current Kentucky State Capitol, Governor's Mansion, and surrounding residential area. It additionally includes and recognizes properties, in and outside of the previously listed areas, of later periods of significance than previously recognized. The district thus created constitutes a "well-defined evolutionary district which portrays development in Frankfort from the 1790s into the 1960s."When listed, its 401 resources included 241 resources previously listed, plus 78 new contributing buildings, a new contributing site, four new contributing structures, two new contributing objects, and 24 new non-contributing resources, all in a 126 acres (51 ha) area.It includes four properties documented in the Historic American Buildings Survey during 1937-1940: Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church, Liberty Hall, Old State House, and Orlando Brown House.The district was deemed significant "on a statewide basis as a strong concentration of primarily residential and commercial historic resources built largely on a late-eighteenth-century grid of streets encompassing historic state governmental buildings, representative of the cultural patterns of governance, commerce, and community planning, and containing the homes of a series of individuals of transcendent importance to the locale, state, and nation."

Old State Capitol (Kentucky)
Old State Capitol (Kentucky)

The Old State Capitol in Kentucky, also known as Old Statehouse, was the third capitol of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The building is located in the Kentucky capital city of Frankfort and served as home of the Kentucky General Assembly from 1830 to 1910. The current Kentucky State Capitol was built in 1910. The Old State Capitol has served as a museum and the home of the Kentucky Historical Society since 1920. It has been restored to its American Civil War era appearance and was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1971 for its exceptional Greek Revival architecture, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The Kentucky legislature voted for its construction in 1827. The building was designed in the Greek Revival style by Gideon Shryock, an early Lexington, Kentucky architect. The Old State Capitol was his first building and he was only twenty-five years old. Shryock chose the Greek Revival style to symbolically link Kentucky, a young republic, with ancient Greece, the prototype of popular democratic government. He wanted the front of the building to duplicate the Temple of Minerva Polias at Priene. Greek temples had no windows, therefore the front of the capitol is devoid of fenestration. Other architectural features include a self-supporting stone stairway and a domed lantern above it to bring in sunlight. A bitterly contested 1899 state governor election came to a climax when Democratic claimant William Goebel of Covington, Kentucky was assassinated at the capitol on his way to be inaugurated. A plaque reading "William Goebel fell here, Jan. 30th, 1900" exists near the front entrance of the building.