Home›Places›Tampa, FL›Federal Building, U.S. Courthouse and Downtown Postal Station
Historic place

Federal Building, U.S. Courthouse and Downtown Postal Station

601 N Florida Ave, Tampa, FL

Tampa's post office, courthouse and custom house, finished in 1905, is now a Le Meridien hotel owned by the city.

📅 1905–2001🏛️ Government BuildingRepurposed
Open on the mapSlide back to 1905

The story

Construction on Tampa's federal building began in 1902 and was completed in 1905. James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, designed it in Greek Revival and Renaissance styles. It served as post office, courthouse and custom house, which gave it its long name. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 7, 1974.

It was the courthouse for the Southern District of Florida from 1905 until the Middle District was created in 1962, and then served the Middle District until 2001. The building is now a Le Meridien hotel owned by the City of Tampa.

What's There Now

It operates as a Le Meridien hotel owned by the city.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The building's name reflects three uses: post office, courthouse and custom house.
It was listed on the National Register in 1974.
The Middle District of Florida used it from 1962 until 2001.

Nearby history

Hillsboro Hotel

512 N Florida Ave · 134 m away
Florida's largest commercial hotel in 1911, it was quietly donated to a zoo foundation in 1986 and demolished in 1993.

Tampa Theatre

711 N Franklin St · 136 m away
Tampa's first air-conditioned commercial building was nearly lost in 1973, and it is still showing movies under a painte

The Hub Bar

719 N Franklin St · 149 m away
A downtown Tampa dive that traces itself to 1949 and moved into its Franklin Street building in 2002.

Maas Brothers Department Store

700 N Franklin St · 157 m away
Tampa's hometown department store started with a 23-by-90-foot shop and ended as a parking lot after the condos never ca

Franklin Theatre / Florida Theatre

710 N Franklin St · 159 m away
A theater named in a $50 public contest in 1924 was cleared with its whole block in 1978 for a power company headquarter

S. H. Kress and Co.

811 N Franklin St · 211 m away
A five-and-dime in terra cotta, closed since 1981 and the subject of at least four failed redevelopment plans.

Know something about Federal Building, U.S. Courthouse and Downtown Postal Station? An old photo, a date, a memory of what stood here before?

Add it on the map
Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Courthouse_Building_and_Downtown_Postal_Station_(Tampa,_Florida)