{"nrhp_refnum":"88002434","name":"US Post Office-St. Johnsville","other_names":["St. Johnsville Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"St. Johnsville","county":"Montgomery County","state":"NY","lat":42.99881127400005,"lon":-74.67804264899996,"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 Colonial Revival post office at 25 East Main Street in the village of St. Johnsville, Montgomery County, New York, built in 1936-37 (the form also gives 1937-9) to a Treasury Department design under Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon.","why_significant":"It is an intact example of the federal public architecture built during the Great Depression, in a simplified Colonial Revival style. Its design was the most popular in New York State, used for thirteen nearly identical post offices. It also holds a well-preserved 1940 mural by Jirayr H. Zorthian, commissioned through the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts, showing local history.","narrative":"This one-story brick post office at 25 East Main Street in St. Johnsville was built in the late 1930s to a standard Treasury Department design by Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon. Its Colonial Revival details include a central entrance with fluted Doric columns, a blind fanlight holding an eagle, a denticulated cornice and a copper-clad gable roof topped by a cupola. Inside, the L-shaped lobby keeps its tile floor, wainscot, wooden screenline and lockboxes. The site was cleared in 1936 when the early nineteenth-century Getman House hotel was razed. The design was used for thirteen nearly identical post offices in New York State, the largest related group in the state. The lobby also holds a 1940 mural, Early St. Johnsville Pioneers, by Jirayr H. Zorthian, painted under the Section of Fine Arts and showing relations between Indians and early settlers. The building is valued as an intact example of Depression-era federal architecture.","period_of_significance":"1936-1940","architect_builder":"Treasury Department, Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect; general contractor Loucks and Clarke Corporation of Wallingford, Connecticut","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied; the form states the building keeps a very high degree of integrity on both exterior and interior.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.787336-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002434.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002434/e9b6be151a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002434/e9b6be151a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Publichall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post_Office_-_Saint_Johnsville,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Publichall</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:Post_Office_-_Saint_Johnsville,_NY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100003628","name":"St. Johnsville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/st-johnsville-historic-district-100003628/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313686","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(St._Johnsville,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891051"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/montgomery-county/us-post-office-st-johnsville-88002434/"}