{"nrhp_refnum":"88002401","name":"US Post Office-Peekskill","other_names":["Peekskill Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"738 South St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Peekskill","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":41.289579133000075,"lon":-73.92297709999997,"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 red brick Colonial Revival post office at 738 South Street, Peekskill, Westchester County, New York, designed in 1930 and completed in 1931 under the Treasury Department's Acting Supervising Architect.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a distinguished example of an early twentieth century Colonial Revival public building in New York State. Its limestone and wood ornamentation, drawn from Georgian architecture, sets it apart from plainer post offices of the period. It was built under a 1930 amendment to the Public Buildings Act of 1926, an early federal response to the Depression, and may have been the prototype for later post offices in Warsaw, Riverhead, Massena and Fredonia.","narrative":"Located at 738 South Street in Peekskill, this one-story post office is faced in red brick laid in English bond, with limestone and wood trim. Its main facade is organized around three tall semicircular arches. The center arch holds the entrance, framed by Doric pilasters, and the flanking arches hold Palladian windows. Inside, the public lobby has white marble wainscoting, Adamesque woodwork and a Palladian window echoing the exterior. Designed in 1930 and finished in 1931 while James A. Wetmore served as Acting Supervising Architect of the Treasury, the building was funded with $165,000 under a 1930 amendment to the Public Buildings Act of 1926. It replaced an earlier post office that had been converted from a Victorian house on the same site. Its Georgian-derived detailing is richer than that of most small post offices of the era, and it may have served as a model for later offices in Warsaw, Riverhead, Massena and Fredonia. Additions made in 1967 are considered sympathetic to the original design.","period_of_significance":"1930-1931","architect_builder":"James A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and publicly owned. A rear wing and west-side mailing platform were added in 1967; the nomination calls the additions sympathetic to the original design but counts the addition as non-contributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:46.079317-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002401.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002401/24e1032b90-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002401/24e1032b90-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peekskill,_NY,_post_office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Peekskill,_NY,_post_office.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"04000095","name":"Peekskill Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/peekskill-downtown-historic-district-04000095/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315487","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Peekskill,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891027"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/us-post-office-peekskill-88002401/"}