Old Post Office

The Baton Rouge City Club is a historic building at 355 North Blvd in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was built in 1895 as a U.S. post office building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as the Old Post Office. It includes Northern Italian Renaissance architecture. It is a three-story building. Its NRHP nomination asserts: The Old Post Office is one of the finest and most pretentious examples of turn-of-the-[20th]-century Renaissance Revival architecture in the state. Few other comparable buildings in Louisiana can boast such a high degree of stylistic sophistication and close adherence to Italian prototypes and such extensive use of terra cotta ornamentation, In its day, its design stood at the forefront of architectural development in the state. It is included in the NRHP-listed Downtown Baton Rouge Historic District.