It was designed and built in 1936–37, 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, Louis A. Simon.

The building is in the Colonial Revival style and is a one-story, nine bay steel framed structure clad in red brick in a trapezoidal shape.

It features a multi-tiered cupola on its low hip roof.

The interior features a relief sculpture executed in 1939 by Berta Margoulies.

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