United States Post Office (Amsterdam, New York)
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United States Post Office, Amsterdam NY, June 2008
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| Location | 12-16 Church St., Amsterdam, New York |
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| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1935 |
| Architect | Simon, Louis A.; Schnakenberg, Henry |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| MPS | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858–1943, TR |
| NRHP Reference # | 88002451[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 17, 1988 |
US Post Office-Amsterdam is a historic post office building located at Amsterdam in Montgomery County, New York, United States. It was built in 1935–1936, 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 under Louis A. Simon. It consists of a 2 1⁄2-story, symmetrically massed brick building with 1-story side wings and a large rear wing in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a pair of 1939 murals by Henry Schnakenberg (1892–1970).[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
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- Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York
- Government buildings completed in 1936
- Colonial Revival architecture in New York
- Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, New York
- National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, New York
- Central-Leatherstocking, New York Registered Historic Place stubs
