United States Post Office (Canastota, New York)

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US Post Office-Canastota
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Location118 S. Peterboro St., Canastota, New York
Coordinates 43°4′43″N75°45′5″W / 43.07861°N 75.75139°W / 43.07861; -75.75139 Coordinates: 43°4′43″N75°45′5″W / 43.07861°N 75.75139°W / 43.07861; -75.75139
Arealess than one acre
Built1940
ArchitectSimon, Louis A.; Kingsbury, Alison Mason
Architectural styleColonial Revival
MPS US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP reference No. 88002467 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 17, 1988

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. [2]

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

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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 2016-05-01.Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Canastota Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-01. and Accompanying four photographs