The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida met here until the creation of the Middle District in 1962, at which time the building entered use by the Middle District of Florida beginning in 1962. The facility was also in use as a post office during that entire period. Other federal offices vacated the building in the 1930s-1940s, with the post office remaining only on the first floor. Some second and third floor space was used commercially into the 1990s, but the condition of the structure and lack of elevators ultimately led to the end of those uses.
In 1989, the building was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press.[1]
References
^A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, 1989, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, p. 69, ISBN0-8130-0941-3