United States Post Office (Boonville, New York)

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US Post Office-Boonville
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Boonville Post Office
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Location101 Main St., Boonville, New York
Coordinates 43°29′3″N75°20′9″W / 43.48417°N 75.33583°W / 43.48417; -75.33583
Arealess than one acre
Built1937
ArchitectUS Treasury Dept.; Simon, Louis A.
Architectural styleColonial Revival
MPS US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP reference No. 88002457 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 17, 1988

US Post Office-Boonville is a historic post office building located at Boonville in Oneida County, New York, United States. It was designed and built in 1937, 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, five bay building with a poured concrete foundation and brick facades in the Colonial Revival style. It features a hipped roof surmounted by an octagonal cupola with metal window tracery and an iron weathervane. The interior features a mural painted by the McCullough sisters of New York City depicting a 19th-century scene on the Black River Canal. It is a contributing structure within the Boonville Historic District. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved April 1, 2016.Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Boonville Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved April 1, 2016. and Accompanying nine photographs