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In-progress construction of the Anoka Post Office, July 5, 1916.
Lobby of the Anoka Post Office during construction, looking west, March 1, 1917.
Mail carrier’s (men’s) toilet inside the Anoka Post Office, January 11, 1917.
Historic Post Office building in Anoka, 2008. Photographed by Wikimedia Commons user Elkman.
Designed by the famed Minnesota architect James Knox Taylor, Anoka’s oldest extant public building, built in 1916, is known for its classic Georgian Revival style.
The exterior of the Minnesota Building (St. Paul), which features Morton gneiss at the sidewalk level. Photograph by Paul Nelson, July 1, 2017.
Islamic Civic Society of America and Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque, ca. 2015.
Anoka–Champlin Mississippi River Bridge 4380, ca. 1930.
Postcard image of the concrete Anoka–Champlin Mississippi River Bridge, ca. 1929.
Postcard image of the Anoka–Champlin Mississippi River Bridge, originally built in 1884, ca. 1920.