United States Post Office (St. Johnsville, New York)

US Post Office-St. Johnsville

U.S. Post Office, July 2010
Location 15 E. Main St.,[1]
St. Johnsville, New York
Coordinates 42°59′55″N 74°40′42″W / 42.99861°N 74.67833°W / 42.99861; -74.67833Coordinates: 42°59′55″N 74°40′42″W / 42.99861°N 74.67833°W / 42.99861; -74.67833
Area less than one acre
Built 1936
Architect Louis A. Simon, Jirayr H. Zorthian
Architectural style Colonial Revival
MPS US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP Reference # 88002434[2]
Added to NRHP May 11, 1989

US Post Office-St. Johnsville is a historic post office building located at St. Johnsville in Montgomery County, New York, United States. It was built in 1936, 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 under Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, symmetrical brick building on a stone watertable in the Colonial Revival style. It features a copper clad gable roof with a square, flat topped cupola with a weathervane. The interior features a 1940 mural by Jirayr H. Zorthian (1911-2004) titled "Early St. Johnsville Pioneers."[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[2]

References

  1. Address based on USPS website. Accessed April 1, 2016.
  2. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2016-03-01. Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (July 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: St. Johnsville Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-03-01. and Accompanying seven photographs


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