United States Post Office and Courthouse
Aerial photograph of Las Vegas in the mid to late 1930s. Fred and Maurine Wilson Photo Collection. UNLV Libraries Special Collections & Archives. Cropping and vignette added to original by The Historic Las Vegas Project.
Built in 1933. Federal offices vacated in 1965. The US Postal Service vacated in 2005. Currently serves as a museum.
Architecture: Neoclassical; James A. Wetmore.
The courtroom was the site of the Senator Estes Kefauver Committee hearings that exposed organized crime in the Nevada gaming industry (November 15, 1950; seventh hearing).
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Listed on the Nevada State Register of Historic Places in 2002.
Listed on the City of Las Vegas Historic Property Register in 2003.
Located at 300 Stewart Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Further Readings (#CommissionsEarned): Sin City Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Las Vegas .