{"nrhp_refnum":"88002367","name":"US Post Office-Newburgh","other_names":["Newburgh Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"215--217 Liberty St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newburgh","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.50321664900008,"lon":-74.01086583799997,"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-and-one-half-story red brick federal post office at 215-217 Liberty Street in Newburgh, Orange County, New York, built between 1931 and 1932. It is a contributing building in the East End Historic District.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is an outstanding and exuberant example of a Colonial Revival public building in New York State. It is one of the few large cities to receive a monumental post office between 1915 and 1933, when Treasury policy favored restraint. Its individually designed form, marble ornament, domed cupola and gambrel roof set it apart from the plainer, standardized post offices of the period.","narrative":"Built in 1931-32 at 215-217 Liberty Street, Newburgh's post office is a two-and-one-half-story, nine-bay brick building with a large rear wing. Red Flemish-bond brick is trimmed in white marble, with brick quoins, a modillioned cornice, carved swags, round-arched first-story openings and a high gambrel roof topped by a domed cupola. Congress authorized the project in 1928, the site was bought in 1929, and A. M. Lundberg of St. Louis won the construction contract in 1931. The design was produced in the Treasury's Supervising Architect's office during James A. Wetmore's tenure, and is attributed to Louis A. Simon. It replaced an 1898 Romanesque post office that proved inadequate. The building matters as one of the largest and most elaborate Colonial Revival post offices in New York State, at a time when most federal buildings of the era were small, plain or classical in style. The gambrel roof may nod to Hudson Valley tradition. Original terrazzo floors and marble wall linings survive in the lobby.","period_of_significance":"1931-2","architect_builder":"James A. Wetmore, Supervising Architect (design attributed to Louis A. Simon); contractor A. M. Lundberg of St. Louis","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival (with Neo-Georgian elements)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered; the building remains a post office, with aluminum replacement windows from the late 1970s and an altered lobby screenline.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.90539-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002367.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002367/3585246641-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002367/3585246641-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newburgh,_NY,_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:Newburgh,_NY,_post_office.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"73001246","name":"Montgomery-Grand-Liberty Streets Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/montgomery-grand-liberty-streets-historic-district-73001246/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314227","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Newburgh,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891008"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/us-post-office-newburgh-88002367/"}