{"nrhp_refnum":"88002498","name":"US Post Office-Endicott","other_names":["Endicott Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 Washington Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Endicott","county":"Broome County","state":"NY","lat":42.10054638300005,"lon":-76.04838269799995,"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, nine-bay brick post office at 200 Washington Avenue in the village of Endicott, Broome County, New York, designed by consulting architect Walter Whitlack and built in 1936.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact example of federal Depression-era public works architecture, designed in a restrained Colonial Revival style with modernist touches such as a flat roof and stylized entablatures. Its unusually wide nine-bay facade sets it apart from typical post offices in communities of its size. It also holds a well-preserved 1938 mural by Douglass Crockwell, commissioned by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.","narrative":"Built in 1936 at 200 Washington Avenue, this one-story post office serves the village of Endicott in Broome County. It has a steel frame, cream-colored brick walls, limestone and marble trim, a granite-clad base and a flat roof with stone coping. A recessed five-bay center section with Doric pilasters sits between projecting end wings, giving the building an unusually broad nine-bay facade for a community of its size. Walter Whitlack, a consulting architect working for the Treasury's Supervising Architect, designed it in a restrained Colonial Revival manner with modernist touches. Congress authorized it in 1931 as part of Depression-era public works, and it replaced several earlier rented quarters. Inside, the lobby keeps its terrazzo floors, marble wainscoting, plaster cornice and original screenline. Its best-known feature is the 1938 mural by Douglass Crockwell, \"Excavating for the Ideal Factory,\" which depicts the founding of Endicott's shoe factory and shows industrialist George F. Johnson as a young man.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Walter Whitlack, Consulting Architect; Ross and Reid Stone Setting Company (construction contractor)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival (highly simplified, with modernist influences)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as well maintained and retaining a high degree of exterior and interior integrity; the form lists it as occupied 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 02:50:44.860041-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002498.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002498/4b1c3d574a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002498/4b1c3d574a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tkeator","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Endicott_Post_Office.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Tkeator</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:Endicott_Post_Office.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312138","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Endicott,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890945"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/broome-county/us-post-office-endicott-88002498/"}