United States Post Office (Lockport, New York)
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The United States 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 serv ...
building located at Lockport in Niagara County, New York. It was designed and built 1902–1904, 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, James Knox Taylor. It is a three-story brick and limestone structure in the Beaux-Arts style. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying 25 photographs''
/ref> The United States District Court for the Western District of New York met here from 1904 until 1916. 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.


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US Post Office-Lockport - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.comHistoric Federal Courthouses page
from the
Federal Judicial Center The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency of the United States federal courts. It was established by in 1967, at the recommendation of the Judicial Conference of the United States. According to , the main areas of respo ...
Lockport Lockport Government buildings completed in 1904 Buildings and structures in Niagara County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Niagara County, New York {{NiagaraCountyNY-NRHP-stub