US Post Office Granville
The US Post Office is the local branch of the US Postal Service in Granville , New York . It's in the center of town on Main Street ( NY 149 ). The brick building serves the ZIP code 12832, which includes the Village and the adjacent areas in the Town of Granville .
It was built in the mid-1930s and was a job creation scheme to alleviate the aftermath of the Great Depression. As with a number of other small town post offices from this period designed by Louis A. Simon, it was designed in the Colonial Revival style. It differs from other post offices of this style in New York state in the raised parapet on the gable - this feature is only found in two other post offices in the state - and in the asymmetrical arrangement of the front facade, which was very unusual for a post office at the time Size was. In 1989 it was the first (and in 2009 only) building in Granville to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Building
The post office is in a small lot on the south side of Main Street. The neighborhood consists entirely of two-story commercial buildings. There is a small passage between the post office and the neighboring building to the east, and a driveway west of the post office leads to the small parking lot behind the building. The post office is set a little further back from the street than the neighboring buildings, so there is space for plants and a flagpole.
The structure comprises five by six bays and has one and a half floors. It is a steel frame building on a raised base made of slate on the front and artificial stone on the sides and the rear facade. Above that, the facade is made of bricks in a stretcher bond . The gable roof is covered with slate, the gables are covered by a stone wall crown , high-walled bricks on the parapet of the gable simulate the absence of chimneys . The rear wing has four yokes and a flat roof under which there is a loading ramp.
The north facade has a set back entrance in an archway, which is arranged asymmetrically in the westernmost yoke. It is adorned with a keystone and combat stones made of marble. The gate entrance itself is level with the sidewalk and has a coffered ceiling . Light is let in through skylights .
The window in the easternmost yoke is smaller than the three middle windows. The lintels are made of bricks, keystones and window sills are made of marble. Above is the inscription "UNITED STATES POST OFFICE" and below it is a little smaller "GRANVILLE, NEW YORK" . A marble strip visually separates the lower part of the facade from the small, barred windows on the level of the mezzanine . About these windows again there is the on corbels seated eaves .
The entrance opens to a vestibule , the steps of which lead to another double wooden door and the counter hall behind it. This runs perpendicular to the main entrance. The floor is covered with stone tiles , the lambris is designed up to the level of the switches. The ceiling is plastered and has molded ceiling moldings. The wooden counter furniture and the information board are original.
history
The first post office in Granville opened in 1797 after the Village on the New York- Vermont border was settled. Like many other post offices in smaller towns, it was located in rented rooms in other buildings in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The United States Congress in 1931 approved the construction of 136 new post offices in New York to alleviate the direct effects of the Great Depression. The Granville Post Office was among these approved new buildings. It didn't emerge until 1935, however, when it replaced a number of stores that had previously been on the property. A building contractor from Maryland erected the building at a cost of 75,000 US dollars (adjusted for inflation 1,394,000 US dollars). It was completed and opened the following year.
Louis A. Simon, the then chief architect of the United States Department of the Treasury , designed the building in the style of the Colonial Revival , which had been the standard for post offices in smaller towns since the beginning of the 20th century. In Granville, Simon applied the style in an unusually ornate and atypical manner. In addition to features such as the entrance archway and cornice, the raised parapet is only found at two other post offices in the state, Dobbs Ferry in the south of the state and Hudson Falls nearby. Simon and other architects from the Treasury Department sometimes used asymmetrical facades on smaller structures with only three bays, such as in Whitehall in the north; however, the Granville post office is the only one from this period with five yokes in New York.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Larry Gobrecht: National Register of Historic Places nomination, US Post Office – Granville ( English ) New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . November 1986. Retrieved November 2, 2009.
Coordinates: 43 ° 24 ′ 27 " N , 73 ° 15 ′ 36" W.