US Post Office—Lancaster 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 serv ...

building located at Lancaster in

Erie County, New York Erie County is a county along the shore of Lake Erie in western New York State. As of the 2020 census, the population was 954,236. The county seat is Buffalo, which makes up about 28% of the county's population. Both the county and Lake Erie w ...

. It was designed and built 1938–1939, 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,

Louis A. Simon Louis Adolphe Simon (1867–1958) was an American architect. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Simon was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following a tour of Europe, he opened an architectural office in Baltimore, M ...

. The building is in the

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

style. The interior features a mural by

Arthur Getz Arthur Kimmig Getz (May 17, 1913 – January 19, 1996) was an American illustrator best known for his fifty-year career as a cover artist for ''The New Yorker'' magazine. Between 1938 and 1988, two hundred and thirteen Getz covers appeared on ''The ...

painted in 1940 and titled "Early Commerce in the Erie Canal Region." ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying seven photographs''
/ref> 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 v ...

in 1989.

References

External links

US Post Office-Lancaster - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com
Lancaster Government buildings completed in 1939 Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state) Lancaster National Register of Historic Places in Erie County, New York {{ErieCountyNY-NRHP-stub