{"nrhp_refnum":"88002435","name":"US Post Office-Suffern","other_names":["Suffern Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"15 Chestnut St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Suffern","county":"Rockland County","state":"NY","lat":41.11638372600004,"lon":-74.15236183799993,"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, steel-frame post office with buff brick facades at 15 Chestnut Street in the village of Suffern, Rockland County, New York, built in 1935-36 under the Treasury Department's Supervising Architect, Louis A. Simon.","why_significant":"It is an intact example of 1930s federal Depression-era public works architecture, designed in an austere Colonial Revival style with Art Deco and Moderne touches. It is one of a small number of New York post offices from the decade with those features. It also holds a 1937 relief sculpture, \"Communication,\" by Elliott Means, made for the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.","narrative":"Suffern's post office at 15 Chestnut Street is a one-story, steel-frame building faced in buff-colored brick, with a central three-bay section of vertically scalloped limestone and maroon marble trim around the door and windows. Authorized by Congress in 1931 as part of Depression-era public building programs, it was built from 1935 and completed in November 1936. The design came from the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury under Louis A. Simon. Its restrained Colonial Revival form, with balanced windows and multi-paned sash, is combined with Art Deco and Moderne traits such as plain surfaces, no cornice and a geometric aluminum transom bar. The same design was nearly repeated at the Waverly, New York post office. Inside, the L-shaped lobby keeps its ceramic tile floor and dado and plaster ceiling. Above the postmaster's office door is a 1937 relief titled \"Communication,\" sculpted by Elliott Means for the Treasury's Section of Fine Arts. The building remains well preserved.","period_of_significance":"1935-6; 1937","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect","architectural_style":"Austere Colonial Revival with Art Deco and Moderne characteristics","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as well maintained and retaining a high degree of integrity inside and out; the building is in use as a post office, occupied and in good condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:46.135414-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002435.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002435/90e05cd39e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002435/90e05cd39e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suffern,_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:Suffern,_NY,_post_office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314504","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Suffern,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2466422"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rockland-county/us-post-office-suffern-88002435/"}