New York Sites

The historic post office building in Waverly, 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. It is a one story, five bay, steel frame building clad in yellow / buff colored brick on a raised foundation executed in the Colonial Revival style."

"Westhampton Beach Post Office was designed by Louis A. Simon in conjunction with the United States Treasury Department. Simon also designed the Post Office buildings in Bay Shore, Northport, and Riverhead. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989."

The historic post office building in Whitehall, New York "was designed and built 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 under Louis A. Simon. The building is in the Colonial Revival style and is a modest one story building, three bays wide and clad in red brick."

The historic post office building in Fairport, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1938, housed a example of New Deal artwork inside. Living New Deal believes the facility to have been located at S. Main St. and Church St., and that the building has been demolished.

The historic post office building in Fairport, New York housed a example of New Deal artwork inside: a Treasury Section of Fine Arts-commissioned bronze relief entitled "The Harvest." Henry Van Wolf completed the work in 1939, and it was installed in the post office lobby. The present whereabouts of the work is unknown to Living New Deal.

The historic post office building in Baldwinsville, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1937, housed a New Deal mural (since relocated to the present post office in Baldwinsville). The New Deal post office is now privately owned.

The historic post office in Hamburg, New York was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) with Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1936, is now privately owned.

The historic post office building in Horseheads, New York was constructed as the town's post office during the Great Depression. The building now houses the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes.

The former post office building in Huntington, New York was constructed by the Treasury Department in 1939. When the post office moved to a new location in 1978, the building was sold to the private firm Gundermann and Gundermann Insurance. The building still contains the Section of Fine Arts mural by Paul Chapman painted for the post office.

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...

The historic post office building in Orchard Park, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building was completed in 1941. Postal operations have since relocated (along with New Deal artwork that had resided in the old post office lobby), and the facility now forms part of the larger Municipal Complex for Orchard Park.

The historic post office in Rensselaer, New York was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project with Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1936, has since been re-purposed as the town's police department building.

"The old Riverhead Post Office was designed by Louis A. Simon who was Supervising Architect for the United States Treasury Department. Simon also designed the Post Office buildings in Bay Shore, Northport, and Westhampton Beach. According to the Riverhead Town Historian, the land for the Post Office was purchased in 1932, with the building erected in 1935 and dedicated in November of that year. The post office was a depression-era public works project. It is built in a simplified Colonial Revival style."   (wikipedia) This post office was one of several in the area built with PWA funding: A 1933 article in...

The historic former post office building at 319 Main Street in Saugerties, New York was constructed as a New Deal project with Treasury Department funds. The building is now privately owned.

The U.S. Treasury Department funded an addition to Ithaca, New York's former main post office (now Ithaca's Town Hall) during the mid-1930s. The project was completed in early 1936. Ithaca's Downtown Station post office continues to occupy a corner of the old building.

Kingston, New York's 1907 post office, located at the northeast corner of Broadway and Grand Street, was enlarged and remodeled using Treasury Department funds in a project completed in 1938. The local paper Daily Freeman reported in 2013: "It was a beautiful granite post office built there in 1907," but it eventually got to be too small for the community's needs, Ford said. A former mayor could have purchased the old building for $1 and preserved it, the historian said, but he wanted the property back on the tax rolls, so the building was sold and torn down.

The former post office building in Huntington, New York contains a 1939 Section of Fine Arts mural by Paul Chapman entitled "Huntington Harbor." Though the building is now occupied by Gundermann and Gundermann Insurance, the mural remains in its original location.

Mount Kisco's historic post office building contains two New Deal murals: painted by Thomas Donnelly in 1936, they are entitled "Indian Cornfield" and "Mount Kisco in 1850." The works were commissioned by the federal Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP) and installed post office ca. 1936-7. The building is now privately owned.

The historic post office in Canandaigua, New York was built in 1910; an addition to the building was financed by the Treasury Department during the Great Depression. "In 1938 it was expanded with an additional story under the auspices of Louis Simon, Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department." The building is now owned by the YMCA.

The historic post office building in Cortland, New York "was built in 1913-1915 and enlarged in 1940-1941." The extension was funded by the federal Treasury Department, a New Deal project, and the post office bears a rare cornerstone documenting the original date of construction as well as the date of the addition. The building "is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Oscar Wenderoth. It is a one story building with a brick foundation clad in granite with facades clad in coursed ashlar limestone in...

The historic post office building in Fulton, New York "was built in 1912-1915 and enlarged in 1936-1938. 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, James Knox Taylor. It is a two story building with a limestone facade that contains a six-part colonnade with attached Doric order columns set in antis between Doric piers in the Greek Revival style." The building, which also houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

The historic post office building in Geneva, New York was constructed in 1905-6. An addition to the post office was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds as a New Deal project; that work was completed in 1940. The building, which is still in use today, possesses examples of New Deal artwork both inside and out.

The impressive neoclassical brick post office in Little Falls, New York was originally constructed in 1907-09. A much plainer annex building was added as part of a New Deal project, 1938-40, carried out with federal Treasury Department funds. Jerry Gleason was the contractor for the work, which consisted of the building extension and remodeling.

The historic Post Office and Courthouse in Auburn, New York was "built in 1888–1890 and was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Mifflin E. Bell, in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The limestone-and-brick building was expanded in 1913–1914, designed by James M. Elliot, and again in 1937." The latter extension served as a New Deal project, developed with funds provided by the federal the Treasury Department. The building presently serves as a county office building.

This walnut relief by Francis P. De Luna entitled "In the Park" was installed in the Orchard Park post office in 1943. In 1988 it was moved to the new post office; however, it is currently in storage and not accessible to the public.

The historic Geneva post office is home to five exterior Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP)-funded stone reliefs by Theodore C. Barbarossa and his assistants. They depict respectively "Industry," "Education," "Eagle," "Aviation," and "Agriculture." The post office also contains a Section of Fine Arts-commissioned mural inside.

The present post office in Hudson, New York was originally completed in 1911; a Treasury Department-funded building addition was completed at a cost of $99,000 in 1938.

The historic post office in Newark, New York "was designed and built in 1911–1913 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, James Knox Taylor. The original, main block is a 1-story, five-by-three-bay building clad in stucco and executed in the Classical Revival style. The large rear wing was added to the building in 1938–1939." The late 1930s New Deal extension was funded by the federal Treasury Department. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, the building is still in use today.

The historic main post office in Schenectady, New York was originally constructed in 1912. The building received a New Deal extension undertaken between 1933 and 1935. Work was overseen by contractor Leon Wexler and consisted of constructing the extension as well as remodeling of the building. A sign posted next to the building at the time of its construction said: "Federal Public Works Project No. 6."

The historic post office building in Tonawanda, New York housed an example of New Deal artwork: a Symeon Shimin fresco, title unknown, showing 'contemporary Tonawanda.' The Section of Fine Arts-commissioned work has since been destroyed.

The tempera mural entitled "Horse--Drawn Railroad" was painted in 1941 by Elizabeth Logan. The Section of Fine Arts commissioned the work, which resides in the lobby of the historic Akron, New York post office.

The mural entitled "Along the Barge Canal" was painted by Judson Smith in 1939 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The work was installed in the historic Albion post office, where it still resides today.

The post office contains a Section of Fine Arts mural painted in 1938 by Thomas Donnelly and titled "Fall in the Genesee Country."

From contributor Jimmy Emerson: "New Deal mural entitled "Gateway to the West" painted by Paul Weller in 1941. It was moved to the "new' post office in 1982." The mural was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.

The post office contains multiple TRAP funded murals by Mr. Rosen that depict views and maps of the mid-Hudson region.  

The post office in Boonville, New York, built in 1937, is home to a mural by painted by the sisters Suzanne and Lucerne McCullough of New York City. It depicts a 19th century scene on the Black River Canal and is titled  “Black River Canal—1845.” It was paid for by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.  

The historic post office in Bronxville, New York contains a Section of Fine Arts mural painted by John Sloan in 1939 titled "The Arrival of the First Mail in Bronxville in 1846."

The historic post office building in Canajoharie, New York features a New Deal-funded Section of Fine Arts mural painted by Anatol Shulkin. Titled "Invention of the Paper Bag in Canajoharie," the mural was installed in the post office lobby in 1942.

Section of Fine Arts mural entitled "The Onion Fields" painted in 1942 by Alison Mason Kingsbury. "It was a piece that valorized the work of the local onion workers, many of whom where immigrants from Russia, and was aptly titled The Onion Fields. Its subjects, a male and a female farmer, are a clear departure from the artist's earlier figures, filled out as they were in a stocky body types reminiscent of both Mexican and Soviet art." (https://rmc.library.cornell.edu)

A Section of Fine Arts mural entitled "Apple Pickers" was painted in 1941 by Thomas Donnelly. The mural resides in the retail lobby of the historic Clyde, New York post office building, which is still in use today. Unfortunately the lobby is locked after hours, and as such the mural is not always immediately accessible to the public.