{"nrhp_refnum":"88002354","name":"US Post Office-Mineola","other_names":["Mineola Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main and First Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mineola","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.743035073000044,"lon":-73.63881544599997,"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 two-story, six-sided red brick post office at Main and First Streets in the village of Mineola, Nassau County, New York, built 1935-36 to designs by consulting architects Peabody, Wilson & Brown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative example of federal architecture built under Depression-era public works programs. It is a refined Colonial Revival building with modernist touches, and is unusual for its polygonal plan and corner-facing entrance. It is also the only known project of the New York City firm that designed it.","narrative":"Standing at the corner of Main and First Streets on the edge of Mineola's business district, this post office is a six-sided, two-story building faced in red brick laid in Flemish bond. Its wide entrance front faces the street corner, an unusual arrangement shared in New York State only with two other Long Island post offices, at Oyster Bay and Port Washington. Built in 1935-36 as one of 136 new post offices and extensions planned in the state under a 1931 amendment to the Public Buildings Act, it was designed by the consulting firm Peabody, Wilson & Brown for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. Colonial Revival features include pedimented limestone entrance frames, roundels, and multi-paned wood windows, while the flat roof, lack of cornice and abstract eagle grilles echo 1930s modernism. Inside, the lobby keeps Tennessee marble wainscoting, plaster cornices and a terrazzo floor, though lockboxes and lighting have been altered. The building contains no Treasury-commissioned artwork.","period_of_significance":"1935-6","architect_builder":"Peabody, Wilson & Brown, Consulting Architects; built by A. J. Paretta Contracting Co., Inc. of Long Island City, New York","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, with modernistic influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition and occupied, publicly owned and used as a government office; exterior retains integrity and the interior somewhat less so.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.080591-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002354.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002354/f91f21c06d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002354/f91f21c06d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mineola_post_office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Mineola_post_office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313751","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Mineola,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2466392"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/us-post-office-mineola-88002354/"}