US Post Office-Geneva

67 Castle St., Geneva, New York. County/parish: Ontario.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 11, 1989. NRIS 88002523.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Geneva Post Office

From Wikipedia:

United States Post Office (Geneva, New York)

US Post Office—Geneva is a historic post office building located at Geneva in Ontario County, New York. It is a symmetrically massed one story structure faced with red brick and trimmed in limestone. It was constructed in 1905-1906 and is the first post office constructed in New York state in the Colonial Revival style. It is one of 13 post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under James Knox Taylor. The entrance portico features four Doric columns supporting a full Doric entablature and pediment with an oculus in its tympanum. The interior features a mural titled "The Vineyard" by Peter Blume and installed in 1942.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is located in the Geneva Commercial Historic District.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314115

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