- Old Post Office and Courthouse (Auburn, New York)
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Former U.S. Post Office
and Federal CourthouseFormer U.S. Post Office and Federal Courthouse, Auburn, New York, May 2009Location: 151-157 Genesee St., Auburn, New York Coordinates: 42°55′49″N 76°34′12″W / 42.93028°N 76.57°WCoordinates: 42°55′49″N 76°34′12″W / 42.93028°N 76.57°W Area: less than one acre Built: 1888–1890 Architect: U.S. Treasury; Et al. Architectural style: Queen Anne, Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque Governing body: Local NRHP Reference#: 91000722[1] Added to NRHP: June 11, 1991 The Old Post Office and Courthouse is a historic courthouse and former post office in Auburn in Cayuga County, New York. It is a monumental Richardsonian Romanesque limestone-and-brick civic building built in 1888–1890 and expanded in 1913–1914 and again in 1937. It serves as a courthouse of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.[2] The massive, asymmetrical, 2 1⁄2-story main block (1888) is one of a number of post offices in New York state designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Mifflin E. Bell. It includes a 3-story tower at the southwest corner, a 2 1⁄2-story stair tower, and two massive Richardsonian Romanesque–style entrances. The building was surplussed by the federal government in the 1980s and acquired by Cayuga County.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
- ^ Nancy L. Todd (March 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: U.S. Post Office, Former, and Federal Courthouse". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=973. Retrieved 2009-11-10. See also: "Accompanying four photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=974.
Categories:- Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York
- Courthouses in New York
- Buildings and structures completed in 1890
- Buildings and structures in Cayuga County, New York
- Romanesque Revival architecture in New York
- Richardsonian Romanesque architecture
- Cayuga County, New York Registered Historic Place stubs
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