- City:
- Canastota, NY
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Federal Facilities, Post Offices
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal & Military Operations, Treasury Department
- Completed:
- 1941
Description
The historic post office building in Canastota, New York “was designed and built in 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, Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, three bay steel frame building with facades of red brick laid in common bond in the Colonial Revival style. It features a gable roof crowned by a square, wooden cupola. The interior features a 1942 mural by Alison Mason Kingsbury titled “The Onion Fields.””
Source notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_%28Canastota,_New_York%29At this Location:
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