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United States Post Office (Amsterdam, New York)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
88002451

Phone
  
+1 800-275-8777

Architect
  
Louis A. Simon

Built
  
1935

Opened
  
1935

Added to NRHP
  
17 November 1988

United States Post Office (Amsterdam, New York)

Location
  
12-16 Church St., Amsterdam, New York

MPS
  
US Post Offices in New York State, 1858–1943, TR

Address
  
10 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

Similar
  
Barclays Center, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Hotel Pennsylvania, Madison Square Garden, New York Botanical Garden

US Post Office-Amsterdam is a historic post office building located at Amsterdam in Montgomery County, New York, United States. It was built in 1935–1936, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under Louis A. Simon. It consists of a 2 12-story, symmetrically massed brick building with 1-story side wings and a large rear wing in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a pair of 1939 murals by Henry Schnakenberg (1892–1970).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

References

United States Post Office (Amsterdam, New York) Wikipedia