{"nrhp_refnum":"88002468","name":"US Post Office-Ballston Spa","other_names":["Ballston Spa Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1 Front St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ballston Spa","county":"Saratoga County","state":"NY","lat":43.00230933700004,"lon":-73.84912876099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, five-bay brick post office at 1 Front Street, at the corner of Milton Avenue, in the village of Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1935-36 to designs from the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury under Louis A. Simon.","why_significant":"The building is presented as an intact, representative example of federal architecture built through Depression-era public works programs. It is an extremely simplified version of the Colonial Revival style. Its design was nearly duplicated at the Ilion Post Office, and it reflects the Treasury Department's standardization of post office designs.","narrative":"Ballston Spa's post office is a one-story, red brick building on Front Street at Milton Avenue, built in 1935-36 during the Great Depression. Authorized by Congress in 1931, it was one of many federal post offices in New York State designed under Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect of the Treasury. The steel-frame building has a flat roof, brick parapets with stone coping, eight-over-eight wood windows and a central arched entrance with a radiating fanlight. Its restrained Colonial Revival design reduces classical details to basic forms, and the post office in Ilion, built the same year, nearly duplicates it. The interior is utilitarian, with a modest lobby, a postmaster's office and a large workroom, and it keeps some ceramic tile, plaster and wood detail. The building matters as a well-preserved example of standardized federal design from the 1930s public works era. Construction was funded under an $85,000 appropriation limit and finished in 1936.","period_of_significance":"1935-6","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect; B. Z. Contracting Company of New York City (construction contract)","architectural_style":"Extremely simplified Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked as occupied government use; described as well maintained, with a high degree of exterior integrity. The original doors have been replaced and the interior has some alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.778109-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002468.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002468/cbd47fbbe1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002468/cbd47fbbe1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballston_Spa,_NY,_post_office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Ballston_Spa,_NY,_post_office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314532","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Ballston_Spa,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890908"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/saratoga-county/us-post-office-ballston-spa-88002468/"}