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United States Post Office (Canastota, New York)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
88002467

Phone
  
+1 800-275-8777

Architect
  
Louis A. Simon

Built
  
1940

Opened
  
1940

Added to NRHP
  
17 November 1988

United States Post Office (Canastota, New York)

Location
  
118 S. Peterboro St., Canastota, New York

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

Address
  
118 S Peterboro St, Canastota, NY 13032, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 9AM–12PMSaturday9AM–12PMSundayClosedMonday9AM–4:45PMTuesday9AM–4:45PMWednesday9AM–4:45PMThursday9AM–4:45PMFriday9AM–4:45PMSuggest an edit

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

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

US Post Office-Canastota is a historic post office building located at Canastota in Madison County, New York, United States. It is within the boundaries of the South Peterboro Street Commercial Historic District. It was designed and built in 1940, 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, Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, three bay steel frame building with facades of red brick laid in common bond in the Colonial Revival style. It features a gable roof crowned by a square, wooden cupola. The interior features a 1942 mural by Alison Mason Kingsbury titled The Onion Fields.

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

References

United States Post Office (Canastota, New York) Wikipedia