New York Sites

The historic post office building in Bronxville, New York, "was built in 1937 and was designed by consulting architect Eric Kebbon (1891–1964) for the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a 1 1⁄2-story building faced with brick and trimmed in limestone in the Colonial Revival style. The front façade features six extremely flat limestone pilasters that flank the central entrance." (Wikipedia)

The historic post office in Canajoharie, New York "was built in 1937, 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. It is a one story, symmetrical brick building on a stone watertable in the Colonial Revival style. It features a gable roof with a square, flat topped cupola with Doric order pilasters and round-arched vent openings."

The historic post office building in Canastota, New York "was designed and built in 1940, 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, Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, three bay steel frame building with facades of red brick laid in common bond in the Colonial Revival style. It features a gable roof crowned by a square, wooden cupola. The interior features a 1942 mural by Alison Mason Kingsbury titled "The Onion Fields.""

The historic post office building in Canton, New York "was designed and built in 1936-1937, 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, Louis A. Simon. The building is in the Colonial Revival style and is a one story, nine bay steel framed structure clad in red brick in a trapezoidal shape. It features a multi-tiered cupola on its low hip roof. The interior features a relief sculpture executed in 1939 by Berta Margoulies."

The historic  post office building at 319 Main Street in Catskill, New York was constructed as a New Deal project with Treasury Department funds. The Art Deco building features a distinctive staircase / ADA handicap ramp construction out front. Another modern addition is a pair of murals in the customer lobby, reminiscent of those which were created under the New Deal.

The historic post office building in Clyde, New York was constructed in "1940–1941 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, Louis A. Simon. It is a 1 1⁄2-story steel-framed, brick building on a raised foundation with a limestone watercourse, in the Colonial Revival style." The building also houses an example of New Deal artwork.

The historic post office in Cobleskill, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed in 1935, is still in use today.

The historic post office building in Cooperstown, New York "was built in 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, Louis A. Simon. It is one story in front and two stories in the rear with and exposed basement. It is constructed of brick on a raised concrete foundation and limestone watercourse and beltcourse. The principal facade is symmetrically composed with a three bay pedimented central section faced entirely with ashlar limestone. The building displays Colonial Revival style details."

The historic post office building in Delhi, New York “was built in 1938, 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, Louis A. Simon. It is a symmetrically massed one story brick building with a stone watertable in the Colonial Revival style. The front section features a copper clad gable roof crowned by a square flat-topped cupola with Doric order pilasters and round arched vent openings on each face… It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”

The historic post office building in Delmar, New York "is a small brick building constructed in 1939, near the end of the Great Depression. Louis A. Simon, the Treasury Department's supervising architect at that time, designed 13 total post offices for New York in the Colonial Revival style similar to Delmar's. But that one was the only one from whose design he omitted a cupola."

The historic post office building in Depew, New York "was designed and built 1938-1939, 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, Louis A. Simon. The building is in the Colonial Revival style." The building is still in use today.

The historic Dobbs Ferry post office, built in 1936, was designed by Louis A. Simon in the Colonial Revival style. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

The historic post office building in Dolgeville, New York "was built in 1939-1940, 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, Louis A. Simon. It is a one-story, five bay building with a granite clad foundation, brick facades laid in common bond, and limestone trim in the Colonial Revival style. It features a slate covered hipped roof on the front section." (Wikipedia)

The historic post office building in East Rochester, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1937, houses an example of New Deal artwork inside and is still in use today.

The historic post office building in Ellenville, New York was constructed as a New Deal project with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1940, is still in use today. "The building was one of many post offices in the region which were built of stone, reflecting the historical Dutch influence in the Hudson Valley...President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally approved the design. As a native of the region, he understood the importance of stone architecture and made sure that new post offices in the region were built in that style. In late 1939, villagers in Ellenville sent Roosevelt...

The historic post office building in Endicott New York "was designed and built in 1936 and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by a consulting architect for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Walter Whitlack. It is a one story, nine bay steel frame, cream-colored brick clad building on a raised granite-clad foundation executed in the Colonial Revival style." It is still in use today.

The historic main post office building in Far Rockaway, New York "was built in 1935, and is one of six post offices in New York State designed by architect Eric Kebbon as a consultant to the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a two-story brick building with limestone trim and a low granite base in the Colonial Revival style. Its main façade features a centrally placed polygonal shaped frontispiece with a rounded dome inspired by Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. It also has a grand entrance vestibule." (Wikipedia) The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

The historic post office building in Fort Edward, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1937. The building is still in use today.

The historic post office building in Frankfort, New York "was built in 1940-1941, 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, Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, five bay, steel frame building on a raised foundation in the Colonial Revival style. It features a three bay central pavilion surmounted by a slate covered hipped roof."

The post office was designed and built in 1935-1936. It is "one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, five bay brick structure set on a brick foundation in the Colonial Revival style. The central section features three large round arched openings with cast-stone keystones."

The post office in Garden City, New York was built with federal Treasury Department and Public Works Administration (PWA) funding in 1936. A 1933 article in the Suffolk County News described the PWA allotments for this and other nearby post offices: "Actual allotments for post office buildings in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, amounting to $502,430, have been made by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. This sum will provide three new post office buildings in Suffolk and four in Nassau, as follows: Suffolk—Bay Shore, $71,270; East Hampton, $73,400; Riverhead, $81,000. Nassau—Floral Park, $67,760; Garden City, $84,300; Port Washington, $65,300; Oyster...

The historic post office in Gloversville, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed in 1942, is still in use today.

The historic brick Colonial Revival post office building in Goshen, New York was constructed with Treasury Department funding from 1935-36. The building is still in use today.

The historic post office in Gowanda, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1937, is still in use today.

The historic post office in Granville, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1936, is still in use today.

The historic post office in downtown Great Neck, New York "was built in 1939-40 and designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster (1890-1958) for the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a one story, pentagonal shaped skeletal frame building clad with plucked textured buff limestone in the Classical Revival style. It features a semicircular entrance portico supported by four square columns." (Wikipedia)

The historic post office building in Hamilton, New York "was designed and built in 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, Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, five bay steel frame building with a raised pured concrete foundation and brick watercourse in the Colonial Revival style." The building is still in use today.

The historic post office building in Harrison, New York "was built in 1938 by the Office of the Supervising Architect under the direction of Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, symmetrically massed building clad with random stone ashlar in the Colonial Revival style. The entrance is flanked by fluted, engaged Doric order columns and pilasters which support a simple entabulature. The slate roof is topped by a square, flat topped cupola. The lobby features a 1941 mural by Harold Goodwin titled "Early Days of the Automobile."" (Wikipedia)

The historic post office in Haverstraw, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was built in 1935, is still in service.

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.

The historic post office building in Homer, New York "was built in 1937-1938 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, Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, steel frame, five bay rectangular building clad in brick on a stucco clad foundation in the Colonial Revival style." The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

The historic post office building in Honeoye Falls, New York "was designed and built in 1940, 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, Louis A. Simon. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, the building is still in use today.

The historic post office building in Hudson Falls, 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 hand one half story, five bay, steel frame building clad in red brick."

The Hyde Park Post Office "... is a stone building modeled on an early house in the region. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a native of Hyde Park, took a personal interest in the construction of the new building during the New Deal. A series of murals inside depict major events in local history. In 1988 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places." (Wikipedia) The building was funded by the US Treasury and constructed in 1941.

The historic post office building in Ilion, New York "was built in 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, Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, seven bay, steel frame building on a raised foundation with a brick watercourse in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a 1937 plaster relief by artist Edmund Amateis of Eliphalet Remington."

The historic (and current) post office building in Johnson City, New York "was designed and built in 1934 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, Louis A. Simon. The interior features a mural by Frederic Charles Knight."

The historic downtown post office in Kent, Washington was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1940, houses New Deal artwork inside and is still in use as the city's downtown post office today, though retail operations are housed in a newer addition to the building.

The historic Lake George, NY post office was constructed during the Great Depression with federal funds. It is still in use today. "In 1938 Congress appropriated $75,000 for the current post office as part of an ongoing relief effort during the Great Depression. The land was acquired and construction began the next year. The new post office was opened for business early in 1941. Louis Simon, the supervising architect at the Treasury Department, used the Colonial Revival style, standard for most post offices in small communities across the country at that time. Notable features of that style in the Lake George...

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."

"US Post Office—Lancaster is a historic post office building located at Lancaster in Erie County, New York. It was designed and built 1938-1939, 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, Louis A. Simon. The building is in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a mural by Arthur Getz painted in 1940 and titled "Early Commerce in the Erie Canal Region." It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989."