US Post Office-Springville
Also known as: Springville Post Office
Why it's listed
Located at 75 Franklin Street beside Springville's downtown, this one-story brick post office was built in 1936-7 by the Border Building Company of Buffalo for $73,993. It follows a standard Colonial Revival pattern drawn up under Treasury Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon and was one of thirteen nearly identical post offices in New York State. Its features include a central entrance with fluted Doric columns, a blind fanlight holding a cast aluminum eagle, twelve-over-twelve windows, a denticulated cornice and a square cupola. Inside, the L-shaped lobby keeps its tile floors, plaster walls and original screenline, doors and customer tables. Above the postmaster's office door hangs a 1938 mural by Victoria H. Huntley titled "Fiddler's Green," showing a square dance in the village, which carried that name in the early nineteenth century. The building is valued as an intact Depression-era federal design with a notable New Deal mural.
Significance in brief: It is an intact example of federal public-works architecture from the Great Depression, built to a standardized design by Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon that was used for thirteen nearly identical post offices in New York State. It also contains a well-preserved 1938 mural, "Fiddler's Green," by Victoria H. Huntley, commissioned through the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.
Machine-generated summary. This summary was generated by a language model from the official nomination document and has not been reviewed line by line by an editor. It may contain errors. Check the source document before relying on any detail. Source: nomination document (PDF) · National Archives catalog entry. NRHP reference 88002433, listed May 11, 1989. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-sonnet-5-5, prompt v1.0-2026-10-29, confidence high).
Key facts
| Address | 75 Franklin St., Springville |
|---|---|
| County | Erie County |
| Listed | May 11, 1989 |
| Reference number | 88002433 |
| Resource type | Building |
| Period of significance | 1936-7; 1938 |
| Architect / builder | Treasury Department; Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect; Border Building Company of Buffalo (contractor) |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| Areas of significance | Art, Politics/Government, Architecture |
| Level of significance | State |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | Listed as occupied, in good condition, and retaining a very high degree of exterior and interior integrity; the lobby has been shortened at the west end and has modern lighting. |
| Acreage | 0.9 |
| Coordinates | 42.50975, -78.66573 (NPS GIS) |
What listing means for this property
For a publicly owned building or structure, listing mainly matters when federal funds, permits or licences are involved: projects then go through Section 106 review so effects on the property are considered. Listing also strengthens applications for preservation grants and, for leased income-producing uses, can enable the federal rehabilitation tax credit.
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.
Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 88002433.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- Wikipedia article (used for cross-checking only; text not reproduced here)
- Wikidata Q7891050
- This listing as JSON
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