{"nrhp_refnum":"88002431","name":"US Post Office-Seneca Falls","other_names":["Seneca Falls Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"34--42 State St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Seneca Falls","county":"Seneca County","state":"NY","lat":42.91182813700004,"lon":-76.79795310299994,"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 federal post office at 34-42 State Street in the village of Seneca Falls, Seneca County, New York, built between 1932 and 1934 to designs from the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a distinguished example of federal architecture from the Great Depression public buildings program. It pairs a simplified Classical Revival form with Art Deco ornament, making it one of the earliest New York post offices to use Art Deco forms. Its design is described as unique in the state.","narrative":"Located at 34-42 State Street in Seneca Falls, this brick and limestone post office was built between 1932 and 1934 under the Public Buildings Act program meant to ease Depression-era unemployment. The Office of the Supervising Architect designed it during James A. Wetmore's term as Acting Supervising Architect, and Marbell Contracting Company of Buffalo won the construction contract. The seven-bay front has a projecting central pavilion framed by two-story fluted pilasters, a frieze reading \"United States Post Office,\" green marble spandrels and a metal entrance hood with an American eagle. Inside, the L-shaped lobby has a red tile floor, marble wainscot, Art Deco door surrounds and a metal stair railing. The design combines traditional classical massing with Art Deco ornament and is described as one of the earliest post offices in New York State to use Art Deco forms. It is comparable to the Hempstead and Patchogue post offices of the same period. Earlier post offices in the village occupied leased space.","period_of_significance":"1932-1934","architect_builder":"James A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect; Marbell Contracting Company of Buffalo, New York (contractor)","architectural_style":"Classical Revival with Art Deco ornamentation","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition and occupied, with government use; the screenline has been altered and the lighting is modern.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.993696-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002431.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002431/f2bb8dd682-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002431/f2bb8dd682-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from now in Binghamton, NY","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office-Seneca_Falls_NY_Aug_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from now in Binghamton, NY</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-Seneca_Falls_NY_Aug_09.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"12000134","name":"Women's Rights National Historic Park (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/womens-rights-national-historic-park-boundary-increase-12000134/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314644","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Seneca_Falls,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891048"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/seneca-county/us-post-office-seneca-falls-88002431/"}