{"nrhp_refnum":"88002443","name":"US Post Office-Watkins Glen","other_names":["Watkins Glen Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"600 N. Franklin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Watkins Glen","county":"Schuyler County","state":"NY","lat":42.379145863000076,"lon":-76.87231387899999,"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 small one-story, five-bay brick post office at 600 North Franklin Street in the village of Watkins Glen, Schuyler County, New York, built in 1934-35 to designs from the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury.","why_significant":"It is argued to be an intact representative example of federal Depression-era public works architecture in New York State. Its design is a simplified Colonial Revival with Art Deco-inspired ornament, reflecting the standardized post office designs of Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon. The building has been well maintained and retains most of its original integrity.","narrative":"Built between 1934 and December 1935, this red brick post office at 600 North Franklin Street serves the village of Watkins Glen. It is a one-story, steel-frame building with a flat roof, stone coping, and a projecting three-bay central entrance flanked by large steel-sash windows. Its design is a restrained Colonial Revival, with Art Deco-inspired touches such as a stylized egg-and-dart beltcourse, fluted coping, and stone capitals on brick piers. Original Grecian-style iron lampposts still flank the entrance steps, and the lobby keeps terrazzo floors and plaster and wood details. Congress authorized the building in 1931 as part of Depression-era public works, and construction began after the Van Allen property was acquired in 1934. The design came from the office of Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon, and Agostini Brothers held the construction contract. It is valued as an intact example of standardized federal post office design in New York State during the 1930s.","period_of_significance":"1934-5","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect; Agostini Brothers (construction contract)","architectural_style":"Simplified Colonial Revival with Art Deco-inspired detail","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in good condition, and still publicly owned and used as a post office; exterior integrity is described as high.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.776667-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002443.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002443/8f1bf2dd9e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002443/8f1bf2dd9e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dmadeo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office_Watkins_Glen,_NY.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmadeo</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:US_Post_Office_Watkins_Glen,_NY.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314630","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Watkins_Glen,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891060"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/schuyler-county/us-post-office-watkins-glen-88002443/"}