Victoria Park Post Office was built in 1913 as a face brickwork building with an attached residence to provide a three-bedroom quarter at the rear.

[1] In c. 1940s, the wall dividing the postal hall and mailroom was removed, the main counter extended and a range of alterations were made to the doors and windows.

[3][failed verification][full citation needed][1] Around the 1950s, two additional arches were built to the four originally facing Albany Highway.

[1] The post office presents as a single-storey (overpainted red) brick building with contrasting rendered detailing, strongly modelled arched streetscape facades and tile-clad hipped roof forms, with gablet.

The corner entrance porch is located in the south-west of the building, and has rendered arched openings with accentuated keystones, and rusticated piers providing access to the retail shop in a repositioned doorway.

The Albany Highway frontage originally comprised a four-arched bay to the post office, incorporating the corner entrance porch, and a hipped gable and lantern to the roof.

The sides and rear of the post office are cast as standard Federation villa elevations, with double-hung sash windows and angled fireplaces.

[1] Other external elements include a timber-framed, skillion-roofed and enclosed (half glazed/half corrugated iron panelled) post office box alley to the rear of the site with a separate entrance; a ramp with steel balustrade to the corner porch; and a non-original timber picket fence to part of the property boundary.

The wall dividing the postal hall and mailroom was later removed, the main counter extended and a range of alterations were made to the doors and windows.

[1] Note that the post office boxes are housed in a separate timber-framed structure located in the northwest site corner and is clad with metal sheeting.

An earlier post and telegraph office of 1898, in leased premises, was later replaced by the current building on its prominent and centrally located corner site.

Notwithstanding this, the post office retains its rusticated piers, thickly scaled Romanesque arched openings and arcaded frontage, and deep rendered courses.

This in part derives from its location on a prominent corner site, at the junction of Albany Highway and Duncan Street, in the commercial centre of Victoria Park suburb.

The high level of visibility afforded to its historic elevations and hipped roofscape (albeit altered) also gives the building some landmark qualities.

[1] The significant elements of the Victoria Park Post Office include the original 1913 building component, with integrated residence.

[1] This Wikipedia article was originally based on Victoria Park Post Office, entry number 106197 in the Australian Heritage Database published by the Commonwealth of Australia 2020 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 4 January 2020.