{"nrhp_refnum":"88002511","name":"US Post Office-Hyde Park","other_names":["Hyde Park Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E. Market St. and US 9","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hyde Park","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.79176747100007,"lon":-73.93591574999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Colonial Revival post office built in 1940-41 at East Market Street and Route 9 in the village of Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York. It is a fieldstone building with a two-story main block and two one-and-one-half-story wings, designed by consulting architect Rudolph Stanley-Brown.","why_significant":"The post office is significant for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's personal role in its design and construction, as one of five Hudson Valley post offices he monitored. It is an attempt to replicate the vanished eighteenth-century John Bard house, a departure from standardized Treasury Department designs. It also holds a 1941 mural series by Olin Dows.","narrative":"Hyde Park's post office, at the corner of East Market Street and Route 9, was built in 1940-41 to resemble a large eighteenth-century Hudson Valley manor house. Its two-story hipped-roof main block of random fieldstone is flanked by recessed one-and-one-half-story wings with clapboard gable ends and large stone chimneys. President Franklin D. Roosevelt guided the design, which loosely copied the John Bard house, a frame building from about 1772 that no longer exists. He insisted on fieldstone, and consulting architect Rudolph Stanley-Brown carried out the plans. It was one of five Hudson Valley post offices Roosevelt monitored, and its stonework is more regular than the others. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone in November 1940. Inside, the lobby has a flagstone floor, paneled wainscot and a continuous mural by local artist Olin Dows, painted in 1941 for the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts, showing local history. A stone well-head on the lawn was designed with the building. A brick rear addition from 1963 matches the original in scale.","period_of_significance":"1940-1941","architect_builder":"R. Stanley-Brown, Consulting Architect; Rafferty-Kennedy Company of Philadelphia, contractor","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as virtually unchanged since construction apart from a 1963 rear brick addition; the form lists it as occupied and in use as a government facility.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.136351-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002511.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002511/a448f3830e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002511/a448f3830e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyde_Park,_NY,_post_office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Hyde_Park,_NY,_post_office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312638","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Hyde_Park,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2466387"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/us-post-office-hyde-park-88002511/"}