{"nrhp_refnum":"88002444","name":"US Post Office-Waverly","other_names":["Waverly Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"434--348 Waverly St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waverly","county":"Tioga County","state":"NY","lat":42.002141289000065,"lon":-76.54014770399993,"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, five-bay, steel-frame post office faced in buff brick at 434-438 Waverly Street in the village of Waverly, Tioga County, New York. It was built in 1936-37 and designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury under Louis A. Simon.","why_significant":"The building is an intact example of federal architecture produced by Depression-era public works programs. Its austere Colonial Revival design also shows Art Deco and Moderne influences, including a central entrance of vertically scalloped limestone. It also holds a well-preserved 1939 mural by Musa McKim, commissioned by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.","narrative":"Built between December 1936 and October 1937, this post office on Waverly Street in Waverly, Tioga County, is a one-story, five-bay building with a steel frame and buff brick walls under a flat roof edged in stone coping. Its center section is faced in vertically scalloped limestone, a feature that sets it apart from most 1930s New York post offices. The design is a stripped-down Colonial Revival, with Art Deco and Moderne touches such as bare surfaces and no cornice. Louis A. Simon's Treasury office produced the plans, and the same design was nearly repeated at Suffern, New York. Congress authorized the building in 1931 as part of Depression-era public works, and it replaced three two-story houses. Inside, the lobby keeps its tile floor and wainscoting, dark woodwork and narrow teller windows. Above the postmaster's office door hangs a 1939 canvas mural by Musa McKim, \"Spanish Hill and the Early Inhabitants of the Vicinity.\" The building remains in use and retains most of its original character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect; William F. Sutter of Nescopeck, Pennsylvania, general contractor","architectural_style":"Austere Colonial Revival with Art Deco and Moderne influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in government use as a post office; described as well maintained and retaining most of its original integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.771014-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002444.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002444/e9eaac8e6f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002444/e9eaac8e6f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Malachi77","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WaverlyPO.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Malachi77</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:WaverlyPO.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315124","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Waverly,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707574"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tioga-county/us-post-office-waverly-88002444/"}