{"nrhp_refnum":"88002486","name":"US Post Office-Dolgeville","other_names":["Dolgeville Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"41 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dolgeville","county":"Herkimer County","state":"NY","lat":43.10043363800003,"lon":-74.77238202299998,"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 at 41 South Main Street in the village of Dolgeville, Herkimer County, New York, built in 1939-40 to designs from the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon.","why_significant":"It is an intact example of Depression-era federal public works architecture, in a simplified Colonial Revival design with Greek Revival references. It is one of seven virtually identical post offices built in New York State between 1935 and 1942. It also contains a 1940 fresco mural, \"Underground Railroad,\" by James Michael Newell, made for the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.","narrative":"Dolgeville's post office at 41 South Main Street is a one-story brick building completed in January 1940 and dedicated that July. Authorized in 1931 as part of a federal public buildings program meant to counter Depression unemployment, it was built for $90,000 to a design from the Treasury's Supervising Architect office under Louis A. Simon. The front section has a slate hipped roof, limestone trim and a central entrance framed by recessed bays and plain pilasters. A rear workroom section has a flat roof. The design is one of seven nearly identical post offices built in New York State between 1935 and 1942, and it leans on Greek Revival forms within a restrained Colonial Revival approach. Inside, the lobby retains wood, marble and terrazzo details and a 1940 true fresco, \"Underground Railroad,\" by James Michael Newell. It depicts freedom seekers arriving at a local station on the Brockett farm. The building remains well preserved.","period_of_significance":"1939-40","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect; William A. Sutter of Nescopeck, Pennsylvania (construction contractor)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival (simplified, with Greek Revival precedents)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and occupied, retaining a high degree of integrity inside and out; it is a government-owned post office.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.037146-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002486.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002486/0d9aea2407-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002486/0d9aea2407-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Agreen54","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dolgeville_post_office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Agreen54</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dolgeville_post_office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313114","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Dolgeville,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707558"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/herkimer-county/us-post-office-dolgeville-88002486/"}