{"nrhp_refnum":"88002481","name":"US Post Office-Depew","other_names":["Depew Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Warsaw St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Depew","county":"Erie County","state":"NY","lat":42.90394420500007,"lon":-78.68995515199998,"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 Warsaw Street in the village of Depew, Erie County, New York, constructed in 1938-9 under the federal post office building program and designed under Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon.","why_significant":"It is an intact example of Depression-era federal architecture in a simplified Colonial Revival style with Greek Revival references, and is one of seven nearly identical post offices built in New York State between 1935 and 1942. It also holds a well-preserved 1941 mural by Anne Poor, painted for the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.","narrative":"This one-story, five-bay brick post office on Warsaw Street in Depew, Erie County, was built in 1938-9 during the Great Depression, when the federal government expanded post office construction to offset unemployment. The site was bought for $5,000 in October 1938, and Mutual Construction Company of New York City built it under a $45,990 contract. Designed under Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon, it has red brick walls laid in common bond, a copper-clad hipped roof, and three recessed central bays divided by limestone pilasters beneath a plain limestone frieze. That treatment gives a Colonial Revival building a Greek Revival character and links it to six other nearly identical New York post offices. Inside, the lobby was altered in the 1980s but keeps terrazzo flooring and some marble wainscoting. Above the postmaster's office hangs the 1941 mural \"Beginning the Day\" by Anne Poor, commissioned through the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts. The building is valued for its architecture and its art.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific dates 1938-9; 1941)","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, emphasizing Greek Revival precedents","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and well maintained; the exterior retains a high degree of integrity, while the interior lobby was considerably altered in the early 1980s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.376315-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002481.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002481/a42e5d8af6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002481/a42e5d8af6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shinerunner (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Post_Office_(Depew,_New_York).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shinerunner (talk)</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:U.S._Post_Office_(Depew,_New_York).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312777","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Depew,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890937"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/erie-county/us-post-office-depew-88002481/"}