Post Office – Herkimer NY

City:
Herkimer, NY

Site Type:
Civic Facilities, Federal Facilities, Post Offices

New Deal Agencies:
Federal & Military Operations, Treasury Department

Started:
1933

Completed:
1934

Designer:
Ross Edgar Sluyter

Description

The historic post office in Herkimer, New York “was designed and built in 1933-1934 by consulting architect Ross Edgar Sluyter for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department. It is a one story, seven bay building faced with red brick laid in Flemish bond above a granite clad foundation in the Colonial Revival style. The five central bays are formed as a central pavilion and faced in terra cotta marked by Corinthian order pilasters.”

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, the building is still in use today.

Source notes

National Archives: Record Group 121-BS: Records of the Public Buildings Service: Completion views of federal buildings (prints) alphabetically by state and thereunder by city, to 1966; Box 61. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_%28Herkimer,_New_York%29 https://www.savethepostoffice.com/node/9867

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 24, 2015.

Location Info


135 Park Ave.
Herkimer, NY 13350

Coordinates: 43.025755, -74.988031

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