United States Post Office (Hamilton, New York)
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Location | 32 Broad St., Hamilton, New York |
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Coordinates | 42°49′0″N 75°32′40″W / 42.81667°N 75.54444°WCoordinates: 42°49′0″N 75°32′40″W / 42.81667°N 75.54444°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1936 |
Architect | Simon, Louis A.; Albrizio, Humbert |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
MPS | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
NRHP reference No. | 88002522[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 11, 1989 |
US Post Office-Hamilton is a historic post office building located at Hamilton in Madison County, New York, United States. It was designed and built in 1936, 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, five bay steel frame building with a raised poured concrete foundation and brick watercourse in the Colonial Revival style.
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The Messengers (1938), terracotta relief by Humbert Albrizio installed in the post office lobby
The interior features a 1938 relief sculpture by titled "The Messengers."[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2016-05-01. Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Hamilton Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-01. and Accompanying five photographs
Categories:
- Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
- Government buildings completed in 1936
- Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state)
- National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, New York
- Madison County, New York Registered Historic Place stubs