Old Post Office is a historic

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional ser ...

building located at Oneonta in Otsego County, New York,

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. It was built in 1915, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the

Office of the Supervising Architect The Office of the Supervising Architect was an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings from 1852 to 1939. The office handled some of the most important architectural commissions of the nineteenth ...

of the Treasury Department,

Oscar Wenderoth Oscar Wenderoth (1871–1938) was an American architect who served as director of the Office of the Supervising Architect from 1912 to 1915. He is identified as the architect of many government buildings built during that period, including some li ...

. The original portion of the building is nearly square, seven bays on each side. It is built of Indiana

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

, with Concord granite trim in the

Classical Revival Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...

style. It features a giant portico supported by six massive Corinthian order columns. In 1980, the building housed city offices moved from the Old City Hall. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1988. It is located within the

Oneonta Downtown Historic District Oneonta Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Oneonta in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses 64 contributing buildings and one contributing site. It encompasses the city's intact commercial and civic core an ...

established in 2003.

References

Oneonta Government buildings completed in 1915 Neoclassical architecture in New York (state) Buildings and structures in Otsego County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Otsego County, New York Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in New York (state) {{OtsegoCountyNY-NRHP-stub