{"nrhp_refnum":"88002447","name":"US Post Office-Whitehall","other_names":["Whitehall Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"88 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Whitehall","county":"Washington County","state":"NY","lat":43.55353198500006,"lon":-73.40402949399999,"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 small one-story red brick post office at 88 Broadway in the village of Whitehall, Washington County, New York, designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury and built in 1937-38.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative example of the small Colonial Revival federal buildings erected as Depression-era public works. Its three-bay, side-entrance design is among the smallest post office designs built in New York State before 1942. It also holds a well-preserved 1939 mural by Axel Horn, commissioned through the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.","narrative":"Whitehall's post office is a modest one-story building at 88 Broadway, near the Champlain Canal and the railroad. Completed in 1938 to designs from the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury under Louis A. Simon, it is clad in red brick with a slate gable roof, boxed wood cornice, recessed window panels and a small cupola. Its three-bay front with a side entrance sets it apart from the more common five-bay, center-entrance post offices. The same design was used at Painted Post. Inside, the lobby has marble wainscot, a terrazzo floor and original lockboxes. Above the entrance hangs Axel Horn's 1939 mural, Settlement of Skenesborough, which shows early settlers trying to build a campfire; the Section of Fine Arts rejected Horn's first idea, a scene with Captain Skene, as too controversial. The building represents Depression-era federal construction, simplified Colonial Revival design and the New Deal art program, and it retains much of its original character.","period_of_significance":"1937-","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect, Treasury Department; contract awarded to Sofarelli Brothers of Jamaica, New York","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in good condition; retains a high degree of exterior and interior integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.714821-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002447.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002447/42e5437a3c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002447/42e5437a3c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Alee7457","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitehall,_NY_Post_Office.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Alee7457</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:Whitehall,_NY_Post_Office.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315425","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Whitehall,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891065"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/washington-county/us-post-office-whitehall-88002447/"}