US Post Office-Canajoharie
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Location: | 50 W. Main St., Canajoharie, New York |
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Area: | less than one acre |
Built: | 1937 |
Architect: | Simon, Louis A.; Shulkin, Anatol |
Architectural style: | Colonial Revival |
Governing body: | U.S. Postal Service |
MPS: | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
NRHP Reference#: | 88002464[1] |
Added to NRHP: | November 17, 1988 |
US Post Office-Canajoharie is a historic post office building located at Canajoharie in Montgomery County, New York, United States. It was built in 1937, 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 is a one story, symmetrical brick building on a stone watertable in the Colonial Revival style. It features a gable roof with a square, flat topped cupola with Doric order pilasters and round-arched vent openings. The interior features a 1942 mural by Anatol Shulkin (1899-1961) titled "Invention of the Paper Bag in Canajoharie."[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]