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United States Post Office (Geneva, New York)

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival

Opened
  
1906

Built
  
1905

NRHP Reference #
  
88002523

Phone
  
+1 315-789-0922

United States Post Office (Geneva, New York)

Location
  
67 Castle St., Geneva, New York

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

Address
  
67 Castle St, Geneva, NY 14456, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 9AM–12PMSaturday9AM–12PMSundayClosedMonday8:30AM–5PMTuesday8:30AM–5PMWednesday8:30AM–5PMThursday8:30AM–5PMFriday8:30AM–5PMSuggest an edit

Architects
  
James Knox Taylor, Louis A. Simon

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

US Post Office—Geneva is a historic post office building located at Geneva in Ontario County, New York. It is a symmetrically massed one story structure faced with red brick and trimmed in limestone. It was constructed in 1905-1906 and is the first post office constructed in New York state in the Colonial Revival style. It is one of 13 post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under James Knox Taylor. The entrance portico features four Doric columns supporting a full Doric entabulature and pediment with an oculus in its tympanum. The interior features a mural titled "The Vineyard" by Peter Blume and installed in 1942.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is located in the Geneva Downtown Commercial Historic District.

References

United States Post Office (Geneva, New York) Wikipedia