{"nrhp_refnum":"88002516","name":"US Post Office-Gouverneur","other_names":["Gouverneur Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"35 Grove St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gouverneur","county":"St. Lawrence County","state":"NY","lat":44.33496479400003,"lon":-75.46576719199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-05-11","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 Grove Street in the village of Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York, built 1915-1917 to a Treasury Department design under Acting Supervising Architect James A. Wetmore.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative example of a Colonial Revival public building in New York State. It reflects the shift to standardized Treasury plans after 1915 and is identical in design to the Batavia Post Office. Its balanced facade, limestone trim, Palladian-inspired windows and Colonial Revival lobby give it a dignified presence and a high level of integrity.","narrative":"Located at the corner of Grove Street and Dodge Place, one block south of Gouverneur's business district, this one-story post office was built between 1915 and 1917. Its buff face brick, laid in Flemish bond, is trimmed with limestone. A recessed three-bay portico with limestone pilasters and round-arched openings anchors the symmetrical five-bay facade, and Palladian-inspired windows flank the entry. Inside, a large lobby has terrazzo floors, marble wainscot, a denticulated plaster cornice and an arched screenline of teller windows. Congress authorized the building in 1910, and the site was bought from Edwin Dodge in 1912. It was designed under James A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect of the Treasury, and follows a standard plan also used at Batavia. The building is valued as a restrained, well-proportioned example of Colonial Revival design for a small-town federal building, and it retains its integrity despite a paved site and a small rear addition.","period_of_significance":"1915-17","architect_builder":"James A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect; James Devault of Canton, Ohio was the successful bidder on the building contract","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in good condition, with a small rear addition of unknown date and a paved lawn area; the nomination says integrity remains high.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.266754-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002516.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002516/9ac5aae524-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002516/9ac5aae524-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Post_Office_Gouverneur,_New_York.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Upstate New York</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Post_Office_Gouverneur,_New_York.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314684","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Gouverneur,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890959"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/st-lawrence-county/us-post-office-gouverneur-88002516/"}