Malone, NY post office
Description
The historic post office in Malone, New York “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. The building is in the Classical Revival style and is three stories in height with a five-bay, two-story entrance pavilion, one-story side wings and a two-story rear wing. It is of steel frame construction and clad in yellow brick trimmed with limestone.
Construction on the post office occurred between 1934 and 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, the building is still in use today.
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 121-BS: Records of the Public Buildings Service: Completion views of federal buildings (prints) alphabetically by state and thereunder by city, to 1966; Box 61. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_%28Malone,_New_York%29 http://www.savethepostoffice.com/node/9867
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 25, 2015.
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