Merchants Exchange Building - Oneonta Downtown Historic District - Oneonta, NY
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N 42° 27.233 W 075° 03.772
18T E 494830 N 4700174
Built in 1880s by Alfred C. Lewis this building was used as the post office from 1890 until 1915.
(USN 07740.000160)
Waymark Code: WMQWFA
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 04/06/2016
Views: 1
"Three story, brick commercial building which wraps around the oblique-angled corner of Dietz Street; retains historic fenestration plan and decorative scheme with facade divided into panels of varying widths, mainly with paired windows, but also one triple window and a single window above the stairway entrance; stairway entrance retains an arched doorway between brick piers running to overhanging brick corbel course with pressed metal bracketed cornice above; brick piers also set other sections of the facade; all windows segmentally arched with replacement sash; street level facade remodeled 1960-70 with Colonial taste entrances. Built 1881 (Inventory states 1883-1889). Builder Alfred C. Lewis. Part of this building was used as the post office from 1890 until the completion of the federal building on Main Street in 1915."
Name of Historic District (as listed on the NRHP): Oneonta Downtown Historic District
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Address:
2-6 Dietz Street
Oneonta, NY
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