United States Post Office (Medina, New York)
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U.S. Post Office
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South elevation and partial east profile, 2010
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| Location | Medina, NY |
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| Nearest city | Lockport |
| Coordinates | 43°13′14″N 78°23′19″W / 43.22056°N 78.38861°WCoordinates: 43°13′14″N 78°23′19″W / 43.22056°N 78.38861°W |
| Built | 1931 |
| Architect | James A. Wetmore |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| MPS | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
| NRHP Reference # | 88002351 |
| Added to NRHP | May 11, 1989 |
The U.S. Post Office in Medina, New York, is located at West Avenue and West Center Street (state highways 31E and 63). It is a brick building erected in the early 1930s, serving the ZIP Code 14103, covering the village of Medina and neighboring portions of the towns of Ridgeway and Shelby.
Its Colonial Revival style design is unique in the state, where many post office designs of the era were reused in different communities. Only in Salem, Indiana, was the design known to have been reused. In 1989 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with many other present and former post offices in the state. It is one of only two listed on the Register in Orleans County. The other is in Albion.
The post office is located on the northeast corner of the intersection, on the western edge of downtown Medina, where commercial buildings transition to the residential areas of the village. The stone First Baptist Church, built in 1873, is on the southwest corner. On the northwest is an Italianate house that once housed the village's historical society, now just up Prospect near the Ridgeway town hall. Across West Center Street is a former gas station that has been converted into a branch bank, surrounded with a parking lot.
To the east is the main commercial area of the village, later listed on the National Register itself as the Main Street Historic District. On the west is a neighborhood with many of the village's older houses with a few more churches scattered among them. The terrain is generally level. There is a narrow grassy strip in front of the building, with small shrubs on the east and a large nut tree on the west. A driveway on the east leads to parking in the rear, also accessible from West Avenue north of the building.
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