- Post Office - Poughkeepsie NYThe magnificent Poughkeepsie post office was built by the Treasury Department as part of the New Deal in 1937-39. The architecture is a kind of colonial revival done in the rough stone style of the Dutch settlers of the Hudson Valley. The post office lobby contains exceptional murals depicting six scenes in local and state history (see accompanying mural page). The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. FDR took a keen interest in post offices near his family home in Hyde Park. As the wikipedia entry describes it: "The building was the second of five post offices...