United States Post Office (Oxford, New York)
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US Post Office-Oxford | |
Location | 2 S. Washington Ave.,[2] Oxford, New York |
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Coordinates | 42°26′32″N 75°35′56″W / 42.44222°N 75.59889°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1939 |
Architect | Louis A. Simon, Mordi Gassner |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
MPS | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
NRHP reference No. | 88002392[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 11, 1989 |
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.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Address based on USPS website. Accessed March 29, 2016.
- ^ "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 (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Oxford Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-03-01. and Accompanying 10 photographs
Categories:
- Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
- Government buildings completed in 1940
- Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state)
- Buildings and structures in Chenango County, New York
- National Register of Historic Places in Chenango County, New York
- Central New York Registered Historic Place stubs