Post Office (former) - Mount Kisco NY

City:: Mount Kisco, NY
Site Type:: Art Works, Murals
New Deal Agencies:: Federal & Military Operations, Public Works Funding, Treasury Department, Public Works Administration (PWA)
Contractor:: Mott B. Schmidt

Description

Mount Kisco’s historic post office building was constructed as a federally sponsored Public Works Administration (PWA) project with Treasury Department funds in 1936. Postal operations moved to a newer building on the outskirts of the town in the early 1990s. The Depression-era post office building, which houses examples of New Deal artwork, is now privately owned.

The old post office “a one and one-half story building constructed of brick laid in Flemish bond with a limestone foundation and slate shingles. The interior of the post office is intact. The main entrance opens into a vestibule. The main hall contains a barrel-vaulted ceiling and arched openings with wrought grills surmount the windows and teller screen. Also of note is the interior oil on canvas murals by Thomas Donnelly (completed in 1936), which depict scenes from the early history of Mount Kisco.” (westchesterhistory.com)

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 62. https://www.westchesterhistory.com/index.php/preservation/display?town=moKisco

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 25, 2015.