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US Post Office-Canastota
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	118 S. Peterboro St., Canastota, New York
Coordinates	43°4′43″N 75°45′5″W / 43.07861°N 75.75139°W / 43.07861; -75.75139
Area	less than one acre
Built	1940
Architect	Simon, Louis A.; Kingsbury, Alison Mason
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP reference No.	88002467
Added to NRHP	November 17, 1988

US Post Office-Canastota is a historic post office building located at Canastota in Madison County, New York, United States. It is within the boundaries of the South Peterboro Street Commercial Historic District. It 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.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2016-05-01. Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Canastota Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-01. and Accompanying four photographs

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