United States Post Office (Canajoharie, New York)
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US Post Office-Canajoharie is a historic post office
building located at Canajoharie
in Montgomery County
, New York
, United States
. It was built in 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 under Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, symmetrical brick building on a stone watertable in the Colonial Revival
style. It features a gable roof with a square, flat topped cupola
with Doric order
pilasters and round-arched vent openings. The interior features a 1942 mural by Anatol Shulkin (1899-1961) titled "Invention of the Paper Bag in Canajoharie."
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1988.
Post office
A post office is a facility forming part of a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...
building located at Canajoharie
Canajoharie, New York
Canajoharie, New York may refer to:* Canajoharie , New York* Canajoharie , New York...
in Montgomery County
Montgomery County, New York
As of the census of 2000, there were 49,708 people, 20,038 households, and 13,104 families residing in the county. The population density was 123 people per square mile . There were 22,522 housing units at an average density of 56 per square mile...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It was built in 1937, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect
Office of the Supervising Architect
The Office of the Supervising Architect was an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings from 1852 to 1939....
of the Treasury Department under Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, symmetrical brick building on a stone watertable in the Colonial Revival
Colonial Revival architecture
The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own...
style. It features a gable roof with a square, flat topped cupola
Cupola
In architecture, a cupola is a small, most-often dome-like, structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome....
with Doric order
Doric order
The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:...
pilasters and round-arched vent openings. The interior features a 1942 mural by Anatol Shulkin (1899-1961) titled "Invention of the Paper Bag in Canajoharie."
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1988.