US Post Office-Clyde 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 Clyde in

Wayne County, New York Wayne County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 91,283. The county seat is Lyons. The name honors General Anthony Wayne, an American Revolutionary War hero and American sta ...

. It was designed and built in 1940–1941 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 -story steel-framed, brick building on a raised foundation with a limestone watercourse, 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 interior features a mural by artist Thomas Donnelly executed in 1941 and titled ''Apple Pickers''. ''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 1988.

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Clyde Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state) Government buildings completed in 1941 Buildings and structures in Wayne County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Wayne County, New York {{WayneCountyNY-NRHP-stub