{"nrhp_refnum":"88002520","name":"US Post Office-Granville","other_names":["Granville Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"41 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Granville","county":"Washington County","state":"NY","lat":43.43436666100007,"lon":-73.25914298499998,"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-and-one-half-story, five-bay, steel-frame, red brick post office at 41 Main Street in the village of Granville, Washington County, New York, built in 1935-6 to a design from the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury.","why_significant":"It is an intact example of Depression-era federal architecture in the Colonial Revival style. Its asymmetrical five-bay massing, parapeted gable roof, marble trim and paneled arched doorway set it apart from the more restrained post offices of the period. It is one of about eighty New York post offices of the 1930s and early 1940s that reflect federal design programs under Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon.","narrative":"Granville's post office at 41 Main Street is a small red brick building put up in 1935-6 under a $75,000 federal appropriation. Authorized in 1931 as part of a public works program responding to Depression unemployment, it replaced a row of stores on the site. Smythe and Company of Takoma Park, Maryland, held the construction contract, and the design came from the office of Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon. The Colonial Revival building has a slate gable roof with parapeted end walls, a round-arched entrance with fanlight, marble trim, bracketed cornice and a row of mezzanine windows with grilles. Its asymmetrical five-bay front is unusual for post offices of the period and gives it a domestic, eighteenth-century look. Inside, a modest lobby has flagstone floors and a plaster ceiling. It is one of eighty New York post offices of the era reflecting federal design programs, and it closely resembles those in Hudson Falls and Dobbs Ferry. It has been well maintained and keeps most of its original character.","period_of_significance":"1935-6","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect; Smythe and Company of Takoma Park, Maryland (construction contractor)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as well maintained, in good condition, and retaining most of its original integrity; new lockboxes installed and original teller windows altered.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:46.182966-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002520.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002520/5af08ce046-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002520/5af08ce046-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Granville,_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:Granville,_NY,_post_office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315431","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Granville,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2466367"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/washington-county/us-post-office-granville-88002520/"}