(The columns and pediment from the first post office now make up part of the Chauncey Rose Memorial in Terre Haute's Fairbanks Park.)

The current building was funded as Public Work Project under the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The three-story Art Deco-style post office was built 1934 to the designs of Terre Haute–based architects Miller & Yeager for the cost of around $450,000.

The federal courtroom features a mural by Frederick Webb Ross titled "The Signing of the Magna Carta.

This article about a property in Vigo County, Indiana on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.