United States Post Office (Wellsville, New York)

US Post Office-Wellsville
Location: 40 E. Pearl St., Wellsville, New York
Area: less than one acre
Built: 1931
Architect: Olmstead, W.B.; Murphy, F.V.
Architectural style: Classical Revival
Governing body: U.S. Postal Service
MPS: US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP Reference#: 88002445[1]
Added to NRHP: May 11, 1989

US Post Office-Wellsville is a historic post office building located at Wellsville in Allegany County, New York. It was designed and built in 1931-1933. It is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by consulting architects W.B. Olmsted and F.V. Murphy to the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department. It is a two story, brick clad structure on a limestone clad foundation with two one-story wings. The structure is in the Classical Revival style. The interior includes two bas relief panels; one depicting the first League of Peace of the Iroquois tribes and the second depicting Mary Jemison, "White Woman of the Genesee." It is located across from Wellsville Erie Depot.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

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