{"nrhp_refnum":"88002496","name":"US Post Office-Ellenville","other_names":["Ellenville Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Liberty Pl.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ellenville","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.71780968000007,"lon":-74.39299975199998,"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-and-one-half-story stone post office on Liberty Place in downtown Ellenville, Ulster County, New York, built in 1940 to a design by consulting architect R. Stanley-Brown and modeled loosely on an eighteenth-century Ulster County stone house.","why_significant":"The building is significant for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's role in its design, which replaced a standardized red brick plan with a regional vernacular stone design. It is one of five Hudson Valley post offices whose design Roosevelt monitored. It also holds a 1942 Section of Fine Arts mural by Louis Bouche and illustrates a twentieth-century interpretation of Colonial architecture.","narrative":"Standing at a downtown corner in Ellenville, this post office was built in 1940 to resemble an eighteenth-century Ulster County stone house. It has random-coursed stone walls, a high gable roof with clapboard gable ends, paneled shutters, multi-light sash and a small cupola with a bell. Local leaders learned that a standard red brick design was planned and appealed by telegram to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who ordered a redesign. Consulting architect Rudolph Stanley-Brown studied stone houses in the Rondout Valley and produced the final plan. Inside, the lobby has wood paneling meant to suggest a colonial interior, and a 1942 mural by Louis Bouche depicts the founding of the first Ellenville post office in 1823. It was the fourth of five Hudson Valley post offices whose design Roosevelt monitored, and it departs from the standardized federal post office designs of the 1930s. Mutual Construction Company completed it in November 1940 for $63,900.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific dates 1940; 1942)","architect_builder":"R. Stanley-Brown, Consulting Architect; built by Mutual Construction Company of New York City","architectural_style":"Regional vernacular style modeled on Ulster County eighteenth-century stone houses, with Colonial Revival post office elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in public ownership; the form notes minor alterations including replaced lighting fixtures and entrance door, and one filled-in teller window.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.662819-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002496.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002496/19cb60bf43-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002496/19cb60bf43-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Original uploader was Daniel Case at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellenville_Post_Office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Original uploader was Daniel Case at en.wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Ellenville_Post_Office.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"12000344","name":"Ellenville Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/ellenville-downtown-historic-district-12000344/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315270","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Ellenville,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890943"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/us-post-office-ellenville-88002496/"}