Post Office – Lake Placid NY

City:
Lake Placid, NY

Site Type:
Civic Facilities, Federal Facilities, Post Offices

New Deal Agencies:
Federal & Military Operations, Treasury Department

Description

The historic post office building in Lake Placid, New York “was designed and built 1935-1936, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under Louis A. Simon. The building is in the Colonial Revival style and is a one story, five bay steel framed building on a raised foundation with a cast stone watertable and clad in orange / buff colored brick. The interior features a group of murals executed in 1937 by Henry Billings.”

Source notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_%28Lake_Placid,_New_York%29

Location Info


2591 Main St.
Lake Placid, NY 12946

Coordinates: 44.285089, -73.98371

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