US Post Office-Geneva | |
Nrhp Type: | cp |
Nocat: | yes |
Location: | 67 Castle St., Geneva, New York |
Coordinates: | 42.8675°N -76.9853°W |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Marker: | building |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 12 |
Mapframe-Caption: | Interactive map showing the location for U.S. Post Office-Geneva |
Built: | 1905 |
Architect: | Taylor, James Knox; Simon, Louis A. |
Architecture: | Colonial Revival |
Added: | May 11, 1989 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 88002523 |
US Post Office—Geneva is a historic post office building located at Geneva in Ontario County, New York. It is a symmetrically massed one story structure faced with red brick and trimmed in limestone. It was constructed in 1905-1906 and is the first post office constructed in New York state in the Colonial Revival style. It is one of 13 post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under James Knox Taylor. The entrance portico features four Doric columns supporting a full Doric entablature and pediment with an oculus in its tympanum. The interior features a mural titled "The Vineyard" by Peter Blume and installed in 1942.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is located in the Geneva Commercial Historic District.