US Post Office-Boonville 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 Boonville in Oneida County,

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. It was designed and built in 1937, 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. It is a one-story, five bay building with a poured concrete foundation and brick facades 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. It features a hipped roof surmounted by an octagonal

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with metal window tracery and an iron

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. The interior features a mural painted by the McCullough sisters of New York City depicting a 19th-century scene on the

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. It is a contributing structure within the

Boonville Historic District Boonville Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Boonville in Oneida County, New York. The district includes 74 contributing buildings, two contributing structures, and two contributing sites. It includes a groupin ...

. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying nine photographs''
/ref> It was listed on the

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in 1988.

References

Boonville Government buildings completed in 1937 Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state) Buildings and structures in Oneida County, New York Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Oneida County, New York {{OneidaCountyNY-NRHP-stub