{"nrhp_refnum":"88002445","name":"US Post Office-Wellsville","other_names":["Wellsville Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"40 E. Pearl St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wellsville","county":"Allegany County","state":"NY","lat":42.12352899500007,"lon":-77.94867329599998,"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 two-story brick and limestone post office with one-story wings at 40 East Pearl Street in the village of Wellsville, Allegany County, New York, built between 1932 and 1933 to designs by Washington, D.C. architects.","why_significant":"It is presented as an outstanding example of Depression-era federal public works architecture, designed in a refined Classical Revival style with Greek Revival and Modernist or Art Deco influences. Its completely intact public lobby has marble, bronze and plaster finishes and two stone bas-reliefs of local Iroquois history. It was one of the few New York post offices of the period not designed in Colonial Revival style.","narrative":"Wellsville's post office at 40 East Pearl Street is a two-story building with one-story wings, faced in buff-colored brick and trimmed with limestone. It was built between March 1932 and March 1933 under a federal program to relieve Depression unemployment. Washington, D.C. architects Walter B. Olmsted and Frederick V. Murphy designed it as consulting architects to the Treasury's Supervising Architect. The front facade is dominated by two-story fluted limestone pilasters, Greek fret ornament and stylized carved eagles at the corners, mixing Greek Revival forms with 1930s Modernist and Art Deco touches. Most New York post offices of the period used the Colonial Revival style, which makes this one unusual. Inside, the lobby survives intact, with marble floors and wainscot, bronze fixtures and a coffered ceiling. Two stone bas-reliefs by H. K. Bush-Brown and Fred Cowles depict the founding of the Iroquois League of Peace and the story of Mary Jemison, and were made specifically for the space.","period_of_significance":"1931-3","architect_builder":"W.B. Olmsted, F.V. Murphy, Consulting Architects","architectural_style":"Classical Revival with Greek Revival, Modernist and Art Deco influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition; the form marks the property as occupied and in government use, and the lobby is described as completely intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.847706-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002445.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002445/286ab99855-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002445/286ab99855-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office_Wellsville_NY_Apr_12.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office_Wellsville_NY_Apr_12.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100011345","name":"The Village of Wellsville East Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/the-village-of-wellsville-east-historic-district-100011345/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312106","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Wellsville,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891063"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/allegany-county/us-post-office-wellsville-88002445/"}