The US Post Office-Amsterdam 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 12-16 Church Street in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

, Montgomery County, New York. It was built in 1935–1936, and was designed by

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 Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department in the Colonial Revival style. It consists of a -story, symmetrically massed brick building with 1-story side wings and a large rear wing 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 archit ...

style. The interior features a pair of 1939 murals by Henry Schnakenberg (1892–1970). ''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.

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Government buildings completed in 1936 Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state) Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, New York {{MontgomeryCountyNY-NRHP-stub