United States Post Office (Canton, New York)
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| Location |
100 Main St.,[1] Canton, New York |
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| Coordinates | 44°35′43″N 75°10′09″W / 44.5954°N 75.1692°WCoordinates: 44°35′43″N 75°10′09″W / 44.5954°N 75.1692°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1936 |
| Architect | Louis A. Simon, Berta Margoulies, sculptor |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| MPS | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
| NRHP Reference # | 88002469[2] |
| Added to NRHP | November 17, 1988 |
US Post Office-Canton is a historic post office building located at Canton in St. Lawrence County, New York. It was designed and built in 1936-1937, 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. The building is in the Colonial Revival style and is a one story, nine bay steel framed structure clad in red brick in a trapezoidal shape. It features a multi-tiered cupola on its low hip roof. The interior features a relief sculpture executed in 1939 by Berta Margoulies.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[2]
References
- ↑ Address based on USPS website. Accessed April 2, 2016.
- 1 2 Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2016-04-01. Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Canton Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-01. and Accompanying seven photographs
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