United States Post Office (Waverly, New York)

US Post Office-Waverly
Location 434-348 Waverly St., Waverly, New York
Coordinates 42°0′7″N 76°32′26″W / 42.00194°N 76.54056°W / 42.00194; -76.54056Coordinates: 42°0′7″N 76°32′26″W / 42.00194°N 76.54056°W / 42.00194; -76.54056
Area less than one acre
Built 1936
Architect Simon, Louis A.; US Treasury Department
Architectural style Colonial Revival
MPS US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP Reference # 88002444[1]
Added to NRHP May 11, 1989

US Post Office-Waverly is a historic post office building located at Waverly in Tioga County, New York. It was designed and built in 1936-1937 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, steel frame building clad in yellow / buff colored brick on a raised foundation executed in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a 1939 mural by artist Musa McKim titled "Spanish Hill and the Early Inhabitants of the Vicinity."[2]

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

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