United States Post Office (Ithaca, New York) Explained

US Post Office-Ithaca
Location:213 N. Tioga St., Ithaca, New York
Coordinates:42.4411°N -76.4967°W
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Marker:building
Mapframe-Zoom:12
Built:1909
Architect:US Treasury Dept.; Taylor, James Knox
Architecture:Classical Revival, French Baroque
Added:May 11, 1989
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:88002514

US Post Office-Ithaca is a historic post office building located at Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York. It was designed and built in 1909 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, James Knox Taylor.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

In 2000, the building was rehabilitated and converted into the Ithaca Town Hall. The USPS operates 5000 sq ft of the property as a postal store.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/brcak/elements/preservation/town-of-ithaca-town-hall-restoration.pdf Town of Ithaca: Ithaca Post Office Rehabilitation Report, October 2000
  2. http://www.holt.com/projects/view/ithaca-town-hall.html Ithaca Town Hall photographs