Theatre Location
We love our new home in the Ballroom on the 3rd floor of the Old Post Office, 1401 Tower Avenue. Accessible with elevator.
Old Post office building from the early 1900s.
The Federal Building/Old Post Office is located at 1401 Tower Avenue. Designed by local architect Earl Barber, work on the $300,000 structure started in June of 1905 and was completed three years later. At its formal opening on April 28, 1908, the building was declared by a government inspector to be “one of the finest federal structures in the Union.”
The large appropriation of funds to construct the building was obtained through the efforts of U.S. Senator John Spooner and Congressman John Jenkins. Much of this money was spent on marble and mahogany lined stairways, bronze decorations and furnishings. The first floor housed the post office. The second floor held a witness room, the grand jury room, the IRS and the U.S. Marshall. The courtroom, law library and district attorney's office were on the third floor.
In 1925 the post office was the scene of one of the biggest robberies in the history of Superior. Five "gentlemen burglars" stole $71,000 in stamps and held Assistant Postmaster C.J. McGill at gunpoint. The building ended its long career as a post office in November of 1981.