United States Post Office (Lake Placid, New York)

US Post Office--Lake Placid

U.S. Post Office, September 2008
Location 2951 Main St.,[1]
Lake Placid, New York
Coordinates 44°17′7″N 73°59′2″W / 44.28528°N 73.98389°W / 44.28528; -73.98389Coordinates: 44°17′7″N 73°59′2″W / 44.28528°N 73.98389°W / 44.28528; -73.98389
Area less than one acre
Built 1935
Architect Louis A. Simon, Henry Billings
Architectural style Colonial Revival
MPS US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP Reference # 88002339[2]
Added to NRHP November 17, 1988

US Post Office-Lake Placid is a historic post office building located at Lake Placid in Essex County, New York, United States. It 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.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[2]

References

  1. Address based on USPS website. Accessed March 31, 2016.
  2. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2016-03-01. Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (December 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Lake Placid Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-03-01. and Accompanying five photographs


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