By Carissa Signore

The old Akron post office building was constructed in 1899 in old Italian Renaissance Revival Style, designed by architect James Knox Taylor who had already designed countless post offices around the United States as well as the Ellis Island Hospital building. The post office was rebuilt in 1927 after the city’s population outgrew the space and it needed to be enlarged. The new building, located at current 168 E. Market St., housed the post office as well as the Internal Revenue Department, military recruiting offices and customs offices. The post office moved again in 1975 to its current location on Wolf’s Ledges. The old building became part of the new Akron Art Museum after it moved from across the street due to lack of room. The building still remains the same as when the museum took it over.