United States Post Office and Courthouse (Peoria, Illinois)

The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, located at 100 Northeast Monroe Street in Peoria, Illinois, is a U.S. district courthouse for the Central District of Illinois.

[1][2] The courthouse has a monumental granite exterior with limestone decorations; these decorations include bas-relief panels sculpted by Freeman L. Schoolcraft above its Main Street entrance: a man of industry, a woman of agriculture, a Native American, and a postal worker.

[3] The building's interior features painted ceilings, St. Genevieve marble walls, and patterned terrazzo floors.

In addition to serving as a federal courthouse, the building also housed Peoria's main post office until 1981.

[4] The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 24, 2012.