A new Post Office and Federal Building was built in about 1930 on the northwest corner of Roberts Street and Second Avenue North (shown above right). That building served as Post Office, Federal courthouse, and Federal building until a new Post Office was built in 1970. For information about the new Post Office, please continue here.

After the post office, moved the old building continued to serve its other Federal tenants until 1998, when a new $15 million, four-story addition was added west of the existing building. The two ends of the building (shown below right) are connected by a glass atrium. The new part of the building houses the U.S. District and bankruptcy courts and the U.S. Marshall Service. The older section was remodeled and houses the U.S. Attorney's office and other court-related agencies.

The resulting Quentin N. Burdick United States Courthouse was dedicated at 10 AM on July 29, 1998, completing three years of construction.

Presiding at the dedicatin were Fargo Mayor Bruce Furness and U.S. Distrcit Judge Rodney Webb (one of the major proponents of the new building). The Burdick family donated a bronze bust of the building's namesake, created by Paul Granlund (a sculptor from St.Peter, Minnesota).