Cedar Rapids Post Office and Public Building

United States historic place

Cedar Rapids Post Office
and Public Building

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

U.S. Historic district
Contributing property

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Location| 305 2nd Ave., SE.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Coordinates| 41°58′42″N 91°39′58″W﻿ / ﻿41.97833°N 91.66611°W﻿ / 41.97833; -91.66611
Area| less than one acre
Built| 1908
Architect| Taylor McAlpin
James Knox
Architectural style| Renaissance Revival
Part of| Cedar Rapids Central Business District Commercial Historic District (ID15000757)
NRHP reference No.| 82000413[1]
Added to NRHP| November 10, 1982

The Cedar Rapids Post Office and Public Building, also known as the Witwer Building, is a historic building located in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 2015 it was included as a contributing property in the Cedar Rapids Central Business District Commercial Historic District.[2]

## History

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The building was completed in 1908 and served as a post office and federal building. The federal government sold the building to Weaver Witwer in 1932 after the new federal courthouse was built on First Street. The first floor housed Witwer's Farm Market and the Me Too Grocery Store and the upper floors housed offices for Witwer's various operations.[3] The store closed in the mid 1960s and Witwer bequeathed the building to Linn County in 1970. It was renovated several times between 1972 and 1989. Before the Cedar River flood in 2008 the building housed several county offices, including Linn County Community Services, Mental Health and Developmental Disability, General Assistance, Protective Payee and State of Iowa juvenile probation offices.[3] It also housed the Witwer Senior Center, which was a non-county organization. The county sold the building to an Iowa City developer in 2010 for $570,004.[4]

## See also

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* List of United States post offices

## References

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1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. ^ Marjorie Pearson, Ph.D. "Cedar Rapids Central Business District Commercial Historic District" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
3. ^ a b "Witwer Building". Linn County, Iowa. Archived from the original on April 22, 2012. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
4. ^ "Witwer Building may have new owner soon". The Gazette. March 22, 2012. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Retrieved October 13, 2012.

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Agriculture|

* Seminole Valley Farmstead

Apartment buildings|

* Ausadie Building
* Brown Apartments

Civic buildings|

* Cedar Rapids Central Fire Station
* Cedar Rapids Post Office and Public Building
* Iowa State Highway Commission, District 6 Building
* Linn County Courthouse
* Veterans Memorial Building

Clubhouses|

* C.S.P.S. Hall
* Consistory Building No. 2
* Sokol Gymnasium

Commercial buildings|

* Best Oil and Refining Company Service Station
* Hotel Roosevelt
* Iowa Building
* Lattner Auditorium Building
* Lesinger Block
* Paramount Theater Building
* Peoples Savings Bank
* Security Building
* Sinclair Building-Smulekoffs Furniture Store

Historic districts|

* B Avenue NE Historic District
* Bever Woods Historic District
* Bohemian Commercial Historic District
* Cedar Rapids 2nd Avenue SE. Automobile Row Historic District
* Cedar Rapids Central Business District Commercial Historic District
* Mays Island Historic District
* Monroe Elementary School Historic District
* Oak Hill Cemetery Historic District
* Our Mother of Sorrows Grotto Historic District
* Redmond Park-Grande Avenue Historic District
* Second and Third Avenue Historic District
* West Side Third Avenue SW Commercial Historic District

Houses|

* Robert and Esther Armstrong House
* A. T. Averill House
* Glenn M. and Edith Averill House
* Calder Houses
* William and Sue Damour House
* George B. Douglas House
* Dr. Percy and Lileah Harris House
* Lustron Home No. 02102
* Charles W. and Nellie Perkins House
* T. M. Sinclair Mansion
* Taylor-Van Note
* Philip A. Wolff House and Carriage House

Industrial buildings|

* Cedar Rapids Milk Condensing Company
* Cedar Rapids Pump Company Factory and Warehouse
* Evans Manufacturing Company Building
* Hamilton Brothers Building
* Harper and McIntire Company Warehouse
* Iowa Wind Mill and Pump Company Office and Warehouse
* Shores-Mueller Company
* Witwer Grocery Company Building

Religious buildings|

* Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
* First Church of Christ, Scientist
* First Universalist Church of Cedar Rapids
* Moslem Temple
* St. James United Methodist Church
* St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church

Schools|

* Grant Vocational High School

Transportation|

* First Avenue Bridge
* Highwater Rock
* IANR Railroad Underpass

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