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Former U.S. Post Office
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Former U.S. Post Office and Federal Courthouse, Auburn, New York, May 2009
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| Location: | 151-157 Genesee St., Auburn, New York |
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| Area: | less than one acre |
| Built: | 1888–1890 |
| Architect: | U.S. Treasury; Et al. |
| Architectural style: | Queen Anne, Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque |
| Governing body: | Local |
| NRHP Reference#: | 91000722[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | June 11, 1991 |
The Old Post Office and Courthouse is a historic courthouse and former post office in Auburn in Cayuga County, New York. It is a monumental Richardsonian Romanesque limestone-and-brick civic building built in 1888–1890 and expanded in 1913–1914 and again in 1937. It serves as a courthouse of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.[2] The massive, asymmetrical, 2 1⁄2-story main block (1888) is one of a number of post offices in New York state designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Mifflin E. Bell. It includes a 3-story tower at the southwest corner, a 2 1⁄2-story stair tower, and two massive Richardsonian Romanesque–style entrances. The building was surplussed by the federal government in the 1980s and acquired by Cayuga County.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1]