{"nrhp_refnum":"88002340","name":"US Post Office-Lancaster","other_names":["Lancaster Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5064 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Erie County","state":"NY","lat":42.90027553900006,"lon":-78.67110744799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, five-bay brick post office at 5064 Broadway in the central business district of the village of Lancaster, Erie County, New York, built in 1938-9 under the Treasury Department's Office of the Supervising Architect.","why_significant":"It is an intact representative example of federal Depression-era public works architecture, with simplified Colonial Revival design that alludes to Greek Revival forms. It is one of seven virtually identical post offices designed by Louis A. Simon in New York between 1935 and 1942. It also contains a 1940 mural by Arthur Getz commissioned by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.","narrative":"Built in 1938-9, this brick post office on Broadway sits in the center of Lancaster's business district, across from the 1940 Art Deco village hall. Designed under Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon, it is a modest Colonial Revival building with Flemish bond brickwork, limestone trim, a slate hip roof and an octagonal cupola. Three recessed central bays between plain limestone pilasters point to Greek Revival precedents, a feature shared with six nearly identical post offices in New York State. Congress authorized the building in 1931 as part of Depression-era public works, and the site was cleared and Broadway widened so the post office could stand near a new village hall. Inside, the lobby retains terrazzo floors, marble wainscoting and woodwork. A 1940 mural by Arthur Getz, \"Early Commerce in the Erie Canal Region,\" hangs over the postmaster's office door. The exterior remains largely intact, while the interior has been somewhat altered.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival (simplified, emphasizing Greek Revival precedents)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as well maintained, with a high degree of exterior integrity and somewhat altered interior lobby; listed as occupied and in government use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.278515-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002340.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002340/e40646d91e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002340/e40646d91e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shinerunner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Post_Office_(Lancaster,_New_York).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shinerunner</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Post_Office_(Lancaster,_New_York).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312775","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Lancaster,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890987"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/erie-county/us-post-office-lancaster-88002340/"}