Post Office Addition – Cortland NY

Description

The historic post office building in Cortland, New York “was built in 1913-1915 and enlarged in 1940-1941.” The extension was funded by the federal Treasury Department, a New Deal project, and the post office bears a rare cornerstone documenting the original date of construction as well as the date of the addition.

The building “is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Oscar Wenderoth. It is a one story building with a brick foundation clad in granite with facades clad in coursed ashlar limestone in the Neoclassical style.”