{"nrhp_refnum":"88002512","name":"US Post Office-Frankfort","other_names":["Frankfort Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Frankfort","county":"Herkimer County","state":"NY","lat":43.038411790000055,"lon":-75.07043503999995,"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 one-story, five-bay, steel-frame brick post office at 130 East Main Street in the village of Frankfort, Herkimer County, New York, built in 1940-41 to a Louis A. Simon design. It is part of a thematic group of New York State post offices.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative example of federal Depression-era public works architecture, built in a simplified Colonial Revival style with modernistic touches. It is one of three virtually identical Simon-designed post offices from 1940-41, with Middleport and Lake George. It also holds a 1942 wood relief by Albert Wein, commissioned through the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.","narrative":"Frankfort's post office, at 130 East Main Street, is a one-story brick building completed in June 1941 after construction began in November 1940. Samuel Plato was the general contractor, and the design came from the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon. A taller central pavilion with angled corners sits between two recessed wings, and the exterior has English-bond red brick, cast-stone trim, a slate hip roof and a segmentally arched entrance with a cast-metal eagle in the transom. The style is a very plain Colonial Revival with hints of Art Deco and Moderne. Identical designs were built in Middleport and Lake George, and a close variant in Westhampton Beach. Inside, the L-shaped lobby keeps its terrazzo floors, marble wainscot and oak trim. Above the postmaster's office door is an abstract wood relief titled \"Growth,\" carved by Albert Wein in 1942 for the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts. The building is valued as an intact example of Depression-era federal construction.","period_of_significance":"1940-1942","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect; Samuel Plato, general contractor","architectural_style":"Extremely simplified Colonial Revival, with Art Deco and Moderne influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and well maintained; the building retains a high degree of integrity inside and out.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.362298-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002512.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002512/24cfbf274e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002512/24cfbf274e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Allan Green","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Post_Office_Frankfort_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Allan Green</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:U.S._Post_Office_Frankfort_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313110","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Frankfort,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890952"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/herkimer-county/us-post-office-frankfort-88002512/"}