US Post Office—Fredonia is a historic

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...

building located at Fredonia in

Chautauqua County, New York Chautauqua County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 127,657. Its county seat is Mayville, and its largest city is Jamestown. Its name is believed to be the lone surviving rem ...

, and within the boundaries of the Fredonia Commons Historic District. It was designed and built in 1935–36 as a

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; from 1935 to 1939, then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to car ...

project, 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. About The office handled some of the most important architectural commissions of ...

of the Treasury Department, Louis A. Simon. It is a one-story, five bay brick structure set on a brick foundation 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 arch ...

style. The central section features three large round arched openings with cast-stone keystones. The interior features "The Harvest"; a mural from 1937 by artist

Arnold Blanch Arnold Blanch (June 4, 1896 – October 3, 1968), was born and raised in Mantorville, Minnesota. He was an American modernist painter, etcher, illustrator, lithographer, muralist, printmaker and art teacher. Life His modernist paintings are a ...

. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1989.

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Fredonia Government buildings completed in 1935 Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state) Works Progress Administration in New York (state) Buildings and structures in Chautauqua County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Chautauqua County, New York {{ChautauquaCountyNY-NRHP-stub