{"nrhp_refnum":"88002527","name":"US Post Office-Goshen","other_names":["Goshen Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Grand St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Goshen","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.40217624300004,"lon":-74.32583922699996,"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-and-one-half-story, steel-frame, brick Colonial Revival post office on Grand Street in the village of Goshen, Orange County, New York, built in 1935-36 and designed by consulting architect E. P. Valkenburgh.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative example of federal Depression-era public works architecture in the Colonial Revival style, with finer detailing than many of New York State's more restrained post offices. It also holds a well-preserved 1937 mural by Georgina Klitgaard, painted for the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.","narrative":"Goshen's post office sits on the north side of Grand Street, near the downtown business district. Built in 1935-36 on the site of the St. Elmo Hotel, which burned in 1920, it is a five-bay, steel-frame building clad in brick, with a steep slate gable roof and an octagonal cupola with a copper dome. A three-bay pedimented central pavilion holds the entrance, which has round-arched openings and a denticulated broken pediment. Congress authorized the building in 1931 as part of a Depression-era public works program, and Samuel Plato won the construction contract under an $85,000 authorization. E. P. Valkenburgh, a consulting architect to the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, designed it in a refined Colonial Revival manner. Inside, the lobby keeps its terrazzo floors, wood wainscot and coved ceiling. A 1937 mural by Georgina Klitgaard, titled \"The Running of the Hambletonian Stake,\" depicts harness racing at Good Time Park in Goshen.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"E. P. Valkenburgh, consulting architect; Samuel Plato, building contractor","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, well maintained and retaining a high degree of integrity inside and out; still used 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 02:50:45.763683-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002527.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002527/4930506a19-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002527/4930506a19-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goshen_Post_Office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia.</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:Goshen_Post_Office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314211","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Goshen,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1563370"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/us-post-office-goshen-88002527/"}