United States Post Office (Le Roy, New York)

U.S. Post Office
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
West profile and south elevation, 2010
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Location	Le Roy, New York
Coordinates	42°58′40″N 77°59′21″W / 42.97778°N 77.98917°W / 42.97778; -77.98917Coordinates: 42°58′40″N 77°59′21″W / 42.97778°N 77.98917°W / 42.97778; -77.98917
Built	1936–38
Architect	James Arnold
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP reference #	88002342
Added to NRHP	May 11, 1989

The U.S. Post Office in Le Roy, New York, serves the 14482 ZIP Code, covering the village and town of Le Roy. It is a brick and stone building on Main Street (New York State Route 5) erected in the late 1930s.

Its Colonial Revival design, featuring a hipped roof and limestone facing, is unique among post offices in the state as the only small one with a clock tower or limestone facing. This is a result of half of the construction being financed privately by a local benefactor. In 1989 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the only one in Genesee County so recognized independently.

The post office is located at the northeast corner of Main and Mill streets, at the eastern edge of downtown Le Roy, two blocks east of the Clay and Lake street (New York State Route 19). To its east a 25-foot (7.6 m) stone retaining wall separates it from Oatka Creek, next to a partial dam. South and west are other commercial properties; a parking lot is located to the north. The lot slopes significantly enough due to the proximity of the creek, exposing the basement on the north (rear) side.

The building itself is an almost square one-story steel frame structure, five bays on the south (front), east and north and six on the west. It is faced in coursed ashlar limestone and topped by a hipped roof shingled in slate, set off by a shallow cornice and parapet with balustraded sections above the windows, around the entire roofline. In the center is a square wooden cupola with a dome, illuminated electric clock and weather vane. A wide stone chimney rises from the rear.