Canton Sites

The historic post office building in Canton, New York "was designed and built in 1936-1937, 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. The building is in the Colonial Revival style and is a one story, nine bay steel framed structure clad in red brick in a trapezoidal shape. It features a multi-tiered cupola on its low hip roof. The interior features a relief sculpture executed in 1939 by Berta Margoulies."

The historic post office building in Canton, New York houses an example of New Deal artwork: a Section of Fine Arts relief entitled "Stillman Foote Acquires Homestead of John Harrington," completed in 1939 by Berta Margoulies and installed in the post office lobby.

The Massena Observer wrote in 1938 that the vast majority of municipalities in St. Lawrence County, New York had sponsored relief projects with the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). Among the towns in which the WPA had worked to 'reconstruct' roads was Canton.

A sanitary sewer and sewage treatment plant construction project in Canton, New York was undertaken with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $11,125 grant toward the $41,110 eventual total cost of the project. Work occurred between May and September 1935. (PWA Docket No. NY 5085)

The Massena Observer wrote in 1938 that the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) helped to develop an athletic field at the old New York State Agricultural School in Canton, New York. The student body helped to spearhead the project by obtaining funds for the cost of materials. The institution now partly comprises SUNY Canton.