{"nrhp_refnum":"88002349","name":"US Post Office-Lyons","other_names":["Lyons Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1--5 Pearl St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lyons","county":"Wayne County","state":"NY","lat":43.06284352400007,"lon":-76.99321190899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick Colonial Revival post office at 1-5 Pearl Street, at the corner of William Street in the civic and commercial center of Lyons, Wayne County, New York, built in 1931-2.","why_significant":"It is an intact representative example of the small federal post offices built in New York State in the 1920s and 1930s, showing the Colonial Revival style and standardized design of the period. It was built as a Depression-era public works project under Acting Supervising Architect James A. Wetmore, and was probably designed by Louis A. Simon. Its pedimented stone entrance and carved garland panels distinguish it from similar post offices.","narrative":"This brick post office at 1-5 Pearl Street sits beside the village park in Lyons, the seat of Wayne County, New York. Built in 1931-2, it has a symmetrical five-bay front, arched window openings with multi-paned sash, and a central entrance framed by fluted Doric pilasters and a triangular pediment. Carved garland panels decorate the parapet. Inside, the lobby has a marble wainscot, terrazzo floor and plaster cornice. The building was authorized in 1913 but not constructed until the Depression-era public works program of the early 1930s. It was built under Acting Supervising Architect James A. Wetmore, though the design was probably the work of Louis A. Simon. Samuel Plato served as contractor. It is listed as an intact example of the simplified Colonial Revival post offices that were standardized across New York State in the 1920s and 1930s, and closely resembles those in Hoosick Falls and Walden.","period_of_significance":"1931-2","architect_builder":"James A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect; Samuel Plato of Louisville, Kentucky, contractor; Frederick A. Burr, construction engineer","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Well maintained and completely intact on the exterior; the lobby has been somewhat altered and extended into an L-shape, and some teller windows are no longer in use. It is occupied and in government use as a post office.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.797753-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002349.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002349/0e43155635-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002349/0e43155635-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dmadeo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lyons_USPO,_Lyons_NY.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmadeo</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:Lyons_USPO,_Lyons_NY.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100002190","name":"Lyons Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/lyons-downtown-historic-district-100002190/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315453","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Lyons,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890997"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/wayne-county/us-post-office-lyons-88002349/"}