US Post Office-Oxford

S. Washington Ave., Oxford, New York. County/parish: Chenango.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 11, 1989. NRIS 88002392.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Oxford Post Office

From Wikipedia:

United States Post Office (Oxford, New York)

US Post Office-Oxford is a historic post office building located at Oxford in Chenango County, New York, United States. It was built in 1939–1940, 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 under Louis A. Simon. It is a one-story, five-bay, steel-frame structure on a raised, poured-concrete foundation with a molded-brick watercourse. It's square, with a slate-covered hipped roof in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a 1941 mural by Mordi Gassner titled "Family Reunion on Clark Island: Spring 1791." It is located within the Oxford Village Historic District.

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

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312293

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