{"nrhp_refnum":"88002450","name":"US Post Office-Albion","other_names":["Albion Post Office","See Also:Orleans County Courthouse Histor"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albion","county":"Orleans County","state":"NY","lat":43.02025454000005,"lon":-78.49795987099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-17","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 on Main Street in Albion, Orleans County, New York, facing Courthouse Square. It was built in 1937-8 to a Treasury Department design.","why_significant":"It is an intact representative example of the federal public works architecture of the Great Depression, designed in simplified Colonial Revival style. Its design was used for thirteen nearly identical post offices in New York State, the largest related group in the state. It also holds a well-preserved 1939 mural, \"Along the Barge Canal,\" by Judson Smith, made under the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.","narrative":"Albion's post office is a symmetrical one-story brick building on Main Street, facing Courthouse Square. Built in 1937-8 for about $52,699, it replaced two Greek Revival houses on a central site and gave the village its first federal building. Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, designed the plan, which was repeated for thirteen nearly identical post offices across New York State. Its Colonial Revival details include a gabled front with a copper-clad roof and cupola, a fluted Doric entrance with a blind fanlight and cast aluminum eagle, and a denticulated cornice. Inside, the lobby keeps its tile floor, wooden screenline and some original lockboxes. A 1939 mural by Judson Smith, \"Along the Barge Canal,\" shows a tugboat towing a barge through town, recalling Albion's prosperity as an Erie Canal community. The building is significant as an intact example of Depression-era federal architecture and art.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Treasury Department; Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect; Andover Associates, Inc. of New York City, general contractors","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in good condition; the form says it retains a very high degree of integrity inside and out.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.412263-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002450.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002450/a5cc05e1e7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002450/a5cc05e1e7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Jimmy Emerson from Dalton GA. Edited by Daniel Case prior to upload","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albion,_NY,_post_office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Emerson from Dalton GA. Edited by Daniel Case prior to upload</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:Albion,_NY,_post_office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314253","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Albion,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1623924"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orleans-county/us-post-office-albion-88002450/"}