{"nrhp_refnum":"88002426","name":"US Post Office-Rye","other_names":["Rye Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"41 Purdy Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rye","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":40.984420345000046,"lon":-73.68260069299998,"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-story, red brick post office at 41 Purdy Avenue in the village of Rye, Westchester County, New York, built in 1935-36 to designs from the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon.","why_significant":"It is an intact example of the federal public works architecture of the Great Depression, a Colonial Revival design that also draws on Greek Revival precedents through its limestone pilasters, cornice and ornamented door and window surrounds. It also holds a well-preserved 1938 mural by Guy Pene du Bois, painted for the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.","narrative":"Rye's post office at 41 Purdy Avenue is a one-story, steel-frame building faced in Flemish-bond red brick on a limestone foundation. It was authorized by Congress in 1931 as part of a public works program responding to Depression unemployment, and was built in 1935-36 for about $145,000 or less, following a design by the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon. Its five-bay front has limestone corner pilasters, a plain broad cornice, and window surrounds carved with a Greek key pattern, giving it a temple-like quality unusual among the plainer small-town post offices of the period. Inside, the lobby keeps its black marble wainscot, terrazzo floor and plaster detail. Above the postmaster's office hangs a 1938 mural by Guy Pene du Bois showing John Jay at his home in Rye, commissioned through the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts. The building is valued as a well-preserved example of standardized federal design and Depression-era public art.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific dates 1935-6; 1937)","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect; Eastern Construction Company, Inc. (construction contractor)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival with Greek Revival influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in good condition, altered but retaining a high degree of integrity inside and out; it has been well maintained.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.092197-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002426.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002426/6fdb0b8446-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002426/6fdb0b8446-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Jimmy Emerson from Dalton GA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office-Rye_NY_Oct_06.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Emerson from Dalton GA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office-Rye_NY_Oct_06.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315473","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Rye,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891040"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/us-post-office-rye-88002426/"}