Over the centuries, the Aruba Post Office was housed in different places, among others Fort Zoutman, the 1911 Government Office building on Zoutmanstraat, the Goverment Office building which is the Courthouse now and a separate building behind the ‘Bestuurskantoor’ on L.G. Smith Blvd. One after the other, they turned out to be too small.

The current building dates back to the early 1950s; it is shaped in the Aruba Public Works Department’s post-1950 modern house style, a Dutch industrial style. A new element in Aruban architecture was the flat roof.

The building was adapted to the tropical climate, with deep lying windows and doors to the balcony, all to block the sunlight as much as possible.

P.O. Boxes are found on the outside.
The interior consist of a high central hall with counters for mail handling on both sides, between high columns.
The entire space is now AC cooled.

During the visit of the royal family in 1955, they were greeted by the public at the post office building. They waved to the crowd from the high balcony during the aubade brought to them by the friar leading the Trupialen boys’ choir.

The large parking lot in front of the building is named after Juan Enrique Irausquin, one of the founding fathers of Aruba’s post-war economy, based on tourism. His statue stands there, overlooking the square bearing his name.