{"nrhp_refnum":"88002436","name":"US Post Office-Ticonderoga","other_names":["Ticonderoga Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"123 Champlain Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ticonderoga","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":43.84759143700006,"lon":-73.42346254499995,"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 123 Champlain Avenue (formerly South Main Street) at the edge of the downtown business district of Ticonderoga, Essex County, New York, built in 1936-7 to a Treasury Department design by Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon.","why_significant":"It is an intact example of federal Colonial Revival post office architecture built under Depression-era public works programs. Its standardized design was the most popular in New York State, used for thirteen nearly identical buildings. It also holds a well-preserved 1940 mural by Frederick Massa, commissioned through the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts, showing a local Revolutionary War scene.","narrative":"Ticonderoga's post office, at 123 Champlain Avenue on the edge of the village business district, was built in 1936-7 from a Treasury Department design by Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon. It is a symmetrical one-story brick building with a stone watertable, a slate gable roof, a square cupola and a wooden denticulated cornice. The central entrance has fluted Doric columns and a blind fanlight set with a cast aluminum eagle. Inside, the L-shaped lobby retains green marble, terrazzo flooring and a nearly intact screenline. The design was used for thirteen nearly identical post offices across New York State, the largest related group in the state, and reflects the standardization and Colonial Revival style typical of federal buildings of the 1920s and 1930s. The lobby also contains Frederick Massa's 1940 mural, The Exhortation of Ethan Allen, showing Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys after the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775.","period_of_significance":"1936-7; 1940","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect, Treasury Department","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.829345-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002436.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002436/6d425809a4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002436/6d425809a4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cobbmom399","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ticonderoga_NY_Post_Office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cobbmom399</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:Ticonderoga_NY_Post_Office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312868","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Ticonderoga,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891054"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/us-post-office-ticonderoga-88002436/"}