{"nrhp_refnum":"88002506","name":"US Post Office-Hoosick Falls","other_names":["Hoosick Falls Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"35 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hoosick Falls","county":"Rensselaer County","state":"NY","lat":42.90067736800006,"lon":-73.35103226499996,"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 post office at 35 Main Street in the village of Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer County, New York, designed in 1923 and completed in 1925 under the Treasury Department's Supervising Architect's office.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an intact, representative example of early twentieth-century federal architecture in New York State and a distinctive small-scale Colonial Revival public building. It reflects the standardized, cost-conscious post office designs adopted as policy after 1915. Its modest scale also fits the character of the village's commercial center.","narrative":"Located at 35 Main Street in Hoosick Falls, this one-story post office is clad in red wire-cut brick with limestone trim. Its five-bay front has round-arched window recesses, a balustraded parapet, and an entrance framed by fluted Ionic pilasters and a triangular pediment. Designed in 1923 and finished in 1925, it came from the office of the Acting Supervising Architect of the Treasury, James A. Wetmore, during a period when post office designs for small communities were being standardized for economy and utility. Congress authorized the building in 1913, and the government bought the site in 1916. The post office had earlier been housed in a commercial block on Church Street. Inside, the lobby is plain, with a molded plaster cornice, wood wainscoting, tile floor and marble baseboards. A mailing platform was added at the rear in 1959. The building is valued as a well-proportioned Colonial Revival example that closely resembles other New York post offices of the 1920s and suits the village center beside it.","period_of_significance":"1923-1925","architect_builder":"James A. Wetmore, Supervising Architect","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good; the building is public, occupied and in use as a 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 02:50:45.466882-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002506.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002506/ff695cd4a1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002506/ff695cd4a1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoosick_Falls,_NY,_post_office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Hoosick_Falls,_NY,_post_office.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"80004280","name":"Hoosick Falls Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/hoosick-falls-historic-district-80004280/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314496","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Hoosick_Falls,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2466373"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rensselaer-county/us-post-office-hoosick-falls-88002506/"}