Buenos Aires Central Post Office

The Buenos Aires Central Post and Communications Office is a public building and landmark in the San Nicolás district of Buenos Aires.

The need for a new central post office in Buenos Aires was first raised in 1888 by the Director of the Argentine Postal Service at the time Dr. Ramón J. Cárcano. Later that year a Congressional bill providing for its construction was signed by President Miguel Juárez Celman. The Ministry of Public Works commissioned French architect Norbert Maillart, who in 1889 submitted a design inspired by the recently-inaugurated James Farley Post Office, in New York.