United States Post Office (St. Johnsville, New York)

US Post Office-St. Johnsville
U.S. Post Office, July 2010
Location Main St., St. Johnsville, New York
Coordinates 42°59′55″N 74°40′42″W / 42.99861°N 74.67833°W / 42.99861; -74.67833Coordinates: 42°59′55″N 74°40′42″W / 42.99861°N 74.67833°W / 42.99861; -74.67833
Area less than one acre
Built 1936
Architect Simon, Louis A.; Zorthian, Jirayr H.
Architectural style Colonial Revival
MPS US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP Reference # 88002434[1]
Added to NRHP May 11, 1989

US Post Office-St. Johnsville is a historic post office building located at St. Johnsville in Montgomery County, New York, United States. It was built in 1936, 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 copper clad gable roof with a square, flat topped cupola with a weathervane. The interior features a 1940 mural by Jirayr H. Zorthian (1911-2004) titled "Early St. Johnsville Pioneers."[2]

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

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