{"nrhp_refnum":"88002419","name":"US Post Office-Rhinebeck","other_names":["Rhinebeck Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"14 Mill St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rhinebeck","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.92629501000005,"lon":-73.91305937599998,"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-and-one-half-story fieldstone post office at 14 Mill Street (U.S. Route 9) in the village of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York, built 1938-39 in the Colonial Revival style and designed by R. Stanley-Brown.","why_significant":"The building is an almost exact replica of the c. 1700 Kip-Beekman-Heermance house, chosen as the model by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was directly involved in its design and construction. It was the second of five stone post offices in New York State that Roosevelt monitored, and it is the only one that closely copies a specific historic building. Its lobby holds artifacts from the Kip house and a 1940 mural by Olin Dows.","narrative":"Rhinebeck's post office, at 14 Mill Street in the village center, is a fieldstone building modeled on a house that stood nearby around 1700. Completed in 1939, it has a high jerkin-head roof, a full-width front porch and multi-pane wood windows with shutters. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Hyde Park native descended from the Beekman family who later owned the original house, chose the Kip house as the model and ordered that stone from its ruins be used. About 90 percent of the front wall came from that house. R. Stanley-Brown, a consulting architect, carried out the design. Inside, the lobby imitates an eighteenth-century home, with a pegged oak floor, beamed ceiling and paneled wainscot. Display cases hold items from the Kip house. A continuous mural by local artist Olin Dows, completed in 1940, shows scenes of local history and the 1939 dedication. Most other 1930s post offices in New York were simplified designs, which sets this one apart.","period_of_significance":"1938-1940","architect_builder":"R. Stanley-Brown, Consulting Architect","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as virtually unchanged since built, with only minor lobby changes; the form marks it 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 02:50:45.507108-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002419.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002419/4f034f867f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002419/4f034f867f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhinebeck,_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:Rhinebeck,_NY,_post_office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312634","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Rhinebeck,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2466417"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/us-post-office-rhinebeck-88002419/"}