The historic Humboldt Post Office building is located in the corned or Main Street and 6th Avenue in Humboldt

Humboldt, Saskatchewan

Humboldt is a Canadian city located in the province of Saskatchewan, 113 km east of Saskatoon at the junction of Highway 5 and Highway 20. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Humboldt No...

, Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

, Canada

Canada

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. The building is 2 1/2 stores with a 4 story bell and clock tower. Designed by the chief architect of the Department of Public Works, David Ewart

David Ewart

David Ewart was a Canadian architect who served as Chief Dominion Architect from 1896 to 1914.As chief government architect he was responsible for many of the federal buildings constructed in this period...

, the building is the last surviving of a series of very similar buildings under a common theme on the prairies. The building originally housed a post office, customs, and weights and measures office on the ground floor; customs and inland revenue offices and an office for the commanding officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police , literally ‘Royal Gendarmerie of Canada’; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as ‘The Force’) is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal,...

(RCMP) on the second floor, while the third floor housed caretaker’s quarters and RCMP offices quarters.

The building has been designated a national historic cite and municipal historic cite. In 2010 a conservation plan was developed for the building

The building is currently used to house the Humboldt & District Muserm and Gallery.