English: Built in 1966, this Modern International-style building was designed by Lyles, Bissett, Carlisle and Wolff to serve as the main Post Office for the city of Columbia, with the building’s design taking advantage of the site’s topography. The site includes a smaller one-story red brick structure and a large parking area surrounding the building at a dramatically lower elevation than the surrounding streets to the east and south, and a sloped concrete bridge, which serves as a ramp that connects this parking area to Taylor Street. The building features a large base with few windows that houses a mail processing facility, with a recessed lower section of the facade with red brick cladding and exposed concrete columns with tapered upper sections, a concrete-clad upper section with concrete panels in a vertical pattern, and a roof surrounded by a low concrete parapet, connected to the surrounding streets with concrete bridges, which is home to a parking lot and plazas with planters. The upper section of the building is a simple Miesian structure with a metal exterior structure featuring columns and a metal panel-clad parapet, a curtain wall with bronze-colored glass cladding, and large, open interior offices on the second floor, and a mail lobby with post office boxes and a customer service desk on the first floor. The building is a notable example of modern architecture, which takes advantage of a dramatically sloped site, and is an excellent example of the influence of Mies van der Rohe on modern architecture, being similar in many respects to the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany.