United States Post Office (Oxford, New York)
government building in Oxford, New York
US Post Office-Oxford is a historic post office building located at Oxford in Chenango County, New York, United States. It was built in 1939–1940, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under Louis A. Simon.
It is a one-story, five-bay, steel-frame structure on a raised, poured-concrete foundation with a molded-brick watercourse. It's square, with a slate-covered hipped roof in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a 1941 mural by Mordi Gassner titled Family Reunion on Clark Island: Spring 1791. It is located within the Oxford Village Historic District.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
“United States Post Office (Oxford, New York)” enters the record as government building in Oxford, New York. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what United, States and Post can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7891020. Authority coordinates are 42.442, -75.599. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1791.
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