United States Post Office (Warsaw, New York)

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US Post Office-Warsaw
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U.S. Post Office, Warsaw NY, October 2009
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Location35 S. Main St., Warsaw, New York
Coordinates 42°44′22″N78°7′59″W / 42.73944°N 78.13306°W / 42.73944; -78.13306
Built1934
ArchitectSimon, Louis A.; US Treasury Department
Architectural styleColonial Revival
MPS US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP reference No. 88002441 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 11, 1989

US Post Office-Warsaw is a historic post office building located at Warsaw in Wyoming County, New York. It was designed and built in 1934-1935 as a Works Progress Administration project, 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 steel frame brick structure on a raised reinforced concrete foundation in the Colonial Revival style. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [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. Larry E. Gobrecht (December 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Warsaw Post Office". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved 2009-06-14.See also: "Accompanying four photos".