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  • Post Office - Larchmont NY
    The historic post office building in Larchmont, New York was constructed in 1937 using federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Le Roy NY
    The historic post office in Le Roy, New York was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed in 1937, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Liberty NY
    The historic post office in Liberty, New York was constructed as a with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed in 1936, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Little Valley NY
    The historic post office in Little Valley, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1942, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Long Beach NY
    The historic post office building in Long Beach, New York "was built in 1936 and designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under the direction of Louis A. Simon. It is a one-story, symmetrically massed building faced with red brick in the Colonial Revival style. It features a central five-bay-wide section with a gable roof, flanked by single bay end pavilions with gable roofs perpendicular to the central section." (Wikipedia) The building became also houses an example of New Deal artwork, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
  • Post Office - Lowville NY
    The historic post office building in Lowville, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1940, houses an example of New Deal artwork inside and is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Malone NY
    The historic post office in Malone, New York "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 Classical Revival style and is three stories in height with a five-bay, two-story entrance pavilion, one-story side wings and a two-story rear wing. It is of steel frame construction and clad in yellow brick trimmed with limestone. Construction on the post office occurred between 1934 and 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, the building is...
  • Post Office - Mamaroneck NY
    The historic post office building in Mamaroneck, New York was constructed in 1934-5 as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project using Treasury Department funds. The building is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Massena NY
    The historic post office in Massena, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1936, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Mechanicville NY
    The historic post office in Mechanicville, New York was constructed as a federally sponsored Public Works Administration (PWA) project with Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1935, is still in use today. A completion photograph at the National Archives cites the building as "Federal Public Works Project #293."
  • Post Office - Middleburgh NY
    The historic post office in Middleburgh, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. "The building is in the Colonial Revival style and is a one story, five bay, steel frame structure on a raised concrete foundation." The post office, which was completed in 1940, houses an example of New Deal artwork and is still in use today. The building was listed to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
  • Post Office - Middleport NY
    "In 1939, as part of relief efforts during the Great Depression, Congress authorized the construction of a post office building in the village, one of the last of over 200 in the state built in the 1930s. The government acquired the present site for $8,950 ($150,000 in contemporary dollars) and demolished the village's trolley stop, a church social hall and house to make way for the new building. In May 1940 a Takoma Park, Maryland, contractor began construction. The building was opened in January 1941, one of the last new post offices to be completed before Congress began diverting resources...
  • Post Office - Mineola NY
    The historic post office building in Mineola, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1935-7. The building is still in service.
  • Post Office - Monticello NY
    The historic post office in Monticello, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1935, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Moravia NY
    The historic post office in Moravia, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed in 1940-1 and houses an example of New Deal artwork inside, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - New Rochelle NY
    The historic post office building in downtown New Rochelle, New York "is a Moderne building built in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as the result of a Multiple Property Submission that included 148 post office buildings in the state of New York." (Wikipedia) The post office was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds and is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Northport NY
    The historic post office building in Northport, New York was designed by Louis A. Simon in conjunction with the United States Treasury Department. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Construction began in 1935 and the building opened in 1936.
  • Post Office - Oxford NY
    The historic post office building in Oxford, 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 under Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, five bay, steel frame structure on a raised, poured concrete foundation with a molded brick watercourse. It is square in shape, with a slate covered hipped roof in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a 1941 mural by Mordi Gassner titled "Family Reunion on Clark Island: Spring 1791." It is located within...
  • Post Office - Oyster Bay NY
    The historic 1936 post office in Oyster Bay, New York was constructed as a federally sponsored Public Works Administration (PWA) project with Treasury Department funds. 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...
  • Post Office - Painted Post NY
    The historic post office building in Painted Post, New York "was designed in 1937 and 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, three bay structure clad in red brick in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a 1939 mural by Amy Jones titled 'Recording the Victory' and depicting a Revolutionary War scene."
  • Post Office - Pearl River NY
    The historic post office in Pearl River, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed from 1935 to 1936, is still in service.
  • Post Office - Port Washington NY
    The historic New Deal post office in Port Washington was built in 1934-5 with joint support from the federal Treasury Department and the Public Works Administration (PWA). 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,...
  • Post Office - Poughkeepsie NY
    The 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...
  • Post Office - Rhinebeck NY
    The Rhinebeck post office was built in 1939 in the stone Dutch Colonial style popular around the Hudson Valley. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who took a lively interest in the local architecture in Dutchess County, his family's ancestral home, insisted that the model for this post office should be "Kipsbergen," an 18th century Rhinebeck home occupied by his ancestors, the Beekmans.  That house had burned in the early 20th century; some of its stones were used in construction of the post office. FDR, Postmaster General James Farley and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. were all present at the dedication ceremony on May...
  • Post Office - Richfield Springs NY
    The historic post office building in Richfield Springs, New York, "was built in 1941-1942, 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, five bay building with a granite clad foundation, brick facades laid in common bond and limestone trim. The roof is surmounted by an octagonal cupola with metal window tracery and a decorative iron weathervane. The building displays Colonial Revival style details. The interior features an untitled 1942 mural by artist John W. Taylor depicting...
  • Post Office - Rockville Centre NY
    The historic post office building in Rockville Centre, New York "was built in 1937 and designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster (1890-1958) for the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a one-story building clad with brick and trimmed in limestone in the Colonial Revival style. It features an Art Deco style grill above the main entrance doors." (Wikipedia)
  • Post Office - Rye NY
    The historic post office building in Rye, New York "was built in 1935 and designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under the direction of Louis A. Simon. It is a one story symmetrical flat roofed building in the Colonial Revival style. The front facade features a central, recessed entrance with broad limestone surround and shallow decorated cornice."
  • Post Office - Scarsdale NY
    The main post office in Scarsdale, New York is "a historic post office building ... built in 1937 and designed by consulting architects Schultze and Weaver for the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a symmetrically massed red brick building containing limestone trim in the Classical Revival style. It is composed of a two story central section with flanking one story wings. The front facade features a three bay recessed limestone portico supported by a pair of tall slender Doric order columns. The lobby features two murals by Gordon Samstag titled "Law and Order in Old Scarsdale" and "Caleb...
  • Post Office - Scotia NY
    The historic (and current) Scotia, New York branch post office was constructed during the Great Depression with federal Treasury Department funds. "In 1935, as a relief measure during the Depression, Congress authorized construction of the current building, replacing an old house and garage at the site. Louis A. Simon, then Supervising Architect at the Treasury Department, handled the design, as he did for many of the other post offices built in New York during the 1930s. His design for Scotia's was almost identical to one used for four other post offices in small communities around the state: Akron, Horseheads, Middleburgh and Oxford....
  • Post Office - Silver Creek NY
    The historic post office in Silver Creek, New York was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project with Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed in 1935, is still in use today. "Federal Public Works Project #302."
  • Post Office - Spring Valley NY
    "In 1931, Congress authorized 136 new post offices and extensions to existing ones in New York as part of an amendment to the Public Buildings Act it had passed five years earlier. The construction was meant to offer relief with the worsening of the Great Depression. Spring Valley's would not begin construction for another five years, in 1936. The site was purchased from a local lumber company that year. Construction began later that year, and the building opened in 1937. Its Colonial Revival design, by Treasury Department Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon, is unique to Spring Valley among the many Colonial...
  • Post Office - Springville NY
    The historic post office building in Springville, New York was built "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 under Louis A. Simon. The building is in the Colonial Revival style and is a one story brick structure crowned by a square, flat-topped cupola."
  • Post Office - St. Johnsville NY
    The historic post office building in St. Johnsville, New York "was 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 under Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, symmetrical brick building on a stone watertable in the Colonial Revival style. It features a copper clad gable roof with a square, flat topped cupola with a weathervane. The interior features a 1940 mural by Jirayr H. Zorthian (1911-2004) titled "Early St. Johnsville Pioneers." Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in...
  • Post Office - Suffern NY
    The Suffern post office was constructed in 1935 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service. "It was built during the New Deal and reflects that era's architectural styles, combining elements of the Colonial Revival style preferred by the Treasury Department for new post offices in the early 20th century with the Streamline Moderne style predominating in the late 1930s... The land was purchased for $20,000 in 1935. The next year, the post office was built for $90,000. Treasury Supervising Architect Louis Simon used an austere Colonial Revival design, demonstrated by...
  • Post Office - Ticonderoga NY
    The historic post office in Ticonderoga, 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 under Louis A. Simon. The building is in the Colonial Revival style and is a symmetrically massed, one story brick building with a stone watertable. The slate covered gable roof is topped by a square, flat-topped cupola with Doric order pilasters."
  • Post Office - Tonawanda NY
    The historic post office building in Tonawanda, New York was constructed between 1939 and 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 under Louis A. Simon. The building is in the Colonial Revival style and features a central pavilion crowned by a cupola and flanked by end pavilions with gable roofs. The interior once featured a mural by Symeon Shimin, but it was removed and has disappeared. An addition to the north was added in 1964."
  • Post Office - Troy NY
    The historic post office building in Tonawanda, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1936-8. The building, which houses New Deal artwork, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Walton NY
    The historic post office in Walton, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1937, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Warsaw NY
    The historic post office in Warsaw, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1935, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Watkins Glen NY
    The historic post office in Watkins Glen, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1935, is still in use today.
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