It was built to house facilities of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, the United States Post Office and other federal agencies.

[2][3] The arch in front of the building was built in 1913 as a memorial to Alabama U.S.

Senators John Tyler Morgan and Edmund W. Pettus, both of whom were former Grand Dragons of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan.

[3][8] It was listed, for its architecture, in the National Register of Historic Places on March 26, 1976.

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