{"nrhp_refnum":"88002433","name":"US Post Office-Springville","other_names":["Springville Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"75 Franklin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springville","county":"Erie County","state":"NY","lat":42.50974698700003,"lon":-78.66573497399997,"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 brick post office at 75 Franklin Street in Springville, Erie County, New York, built in 1936-7 to a standard Colonial Revival design issued by the Treasury Department.","why_significant":"It is an intact example of federal public-works architecture from the Great Depression, built to a standardized design by Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon that was used for thirteen nearly identical post offices in New York State. It also contains a well-preserved 1938 mural, \"Fiddler's Green,\" by Victoria H. Huntley, commissioned through the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.","narrative":"Located at 75 Franklin Street beside Springville's downtown, this one-story brick post office was built in 1936-7 by the Border Building Company of Buffalo for $73,993. It follows a standard Colonial Revival pattern drawn up under Treasury Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon and was one of thirteen nearly identical post offices in New York State. Its features include a central entrance with fluted Doric columns, a blind fanlight holding a cast aluminum eagle, twelve-over-twelve windows, a denticulated cornice and a square cupola. Inside, the L-shaped lobby keeps its tile floors, plaster walls and original screenline, doors and customer tables. Above the postmaster's office door hangs a 1938 mural by Victoria H. Huntley titled \"Fiddler's Green,\" showing a square dance in the village, which carried that name in the early nineteenth century. The building is valued as an intact Depression-era federal design with a notable New Deal mural.","period_of_significance":"1936-7; 1938","architect_builder":"Treasury Department; Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect; Border Building Company of Buffalo (contractor)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in good condition, and retaining a very high degree of exterior and interior integrity; the lobby has been shortened at the west end and has modern lighting.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.057446-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002433.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002433/d827fe2820-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002433/d827fe2820-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Pubdog (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Springville_Post_Office_Jun_09.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Pubdog (talk)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Springville_Post_Office_Jun_09.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312769","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Springville,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891050"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/erie-county/us-post-office-springville-88002433/"}