United States Post Office (Boonville, New York)

US Post Office-Boonville
Location 101 Main St., Boonville, New York
Coordinates 43°29′3″N 75°20′9″W / 43.48417°N 75.33583°W / 43.48417; -75.33583Coordinates: 43°29′3″N 75°20′9″W / 43.48417°N 75.33583°W / 43.48417; -75.33583
Area less than one acre
Built 1937
Architect US Treasury Dept.; Simon, Louis A.
Architectural style Colonial Revival
MPS US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP Reference # 88002457[1]
Added to NRHP November 17, 1988

US Post Office-Boonville is a historic post office building located at Boonville in Oneida County, New York, United States. It was designed and 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, Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, five bay building with a poured concrete foundation and brick facades in the Colonial Revival style. It features a hipped roof surmounted by an octagonal cupola with metal window tracery and an iron weathervane. The interior features a mural painted by the McCullough sisters of New York City depicting a 19th-century scene on the Black River Canal. It is a contributing structure within the Boonville Historic District.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

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