{"nrhp_refnum":"88002470","name":"US Post Office-Carthage","other_names":["Carthage Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"521 State St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Carthage","county":"Jefferson County","state":"NY","lat":43.980476155000076,"lon":-75.60709657399997,"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 brick Colonial Revival post office at 521 State Street, Carthage, Jefferson County, New York, built in 1934-35 to designs from the office of Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon.","why_significant":"It is an intact, representative example of a federal building erected under the public works programs of the Great Depression. Its simple Colonial Revival design reflects the standardization of post office design in the 1920s and 1930s. It is one of three nearly identical post offices authorized in 1931 and designed by Louis A. Simon.","narrative":"Carthage's post office at 521 State Street is a one-story, nearly rectangular brick building completed in 1934-35 on the northern edge of the village's business district. Designed in a very simple Colonial Revival style, it has a slightly projecting central pavilion, a four-column Doric portico with a pediment and eagle, multi-paned windows with denticulated lintels, and a plain stone cornice below a brick parapet. Inside, the lobby keeps terrazzo floors, paneled wainscot and original wood door surrounds. The building was authorized in 1931 under the Public Buildings Act amendment, one of many public works efforts responding to Depression unemployment. It was designed under Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon and is one of three almost identical post offices, the others being in Johnson City and Monticello. Its site required demolition of a Knights of Columbus hall and gymnasium. It is valued as an intact example of 1930s federal post office design.","period_of_significance":"1934-35","architect_builder":"Treasury Department; Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect; Walter S. Johnson Building Company, Inc. (general contractor)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Exterior retains a high degree of integrity; the interior public lobby has been somewhat altered, including the screenline and lighting. Listed as occupied and in government use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.851846-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002470.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313262","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Carthage,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890922"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/jefferson-county/us-post-office-carthage-88002470/"}