US Post Office Hyde Park
The US Post Office Hyde Park is the post office in Hyde Park , New York that serves the area of ZIP code 12538. It is a stone carved building in the architectural style of the Dutch Colonial Revival and is located on East Market Street east of the intersection with US Highway 9 . The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 .
The post office as an institution is of local historical importance as the place took its name from the first post office that was located in the Hyde Park Inn. The original name of the settlement was Stoutenburgh, the new name was used more and more and became official in 1812. Nine years later, the city was re-established under the new name.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt , a son of the City of Hyde Park, was personally involved in the construction of the new building, which was being built during the New Deal . He had personally campaigned for the new post office building in Poughkeepsie and later also in Rhinebeck to be built from the fieldstones found there.
In his speech at the groundbreaking ceremony for the US Post Office in Rhinebeck , Roosevelt jokingly warned Postmaster General James Farley and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. that they would lose their jobs if there was insufficient federal funding to build a new post office in Hyde Park Should be available.
He had chosen a clapboard house built in 1772, but no longer existing, which was built for John Bard, one of the early settlers in the area, as the model for the structure. The stones for the house came from stone walls on land that once belonged to Bard's son Samuel. In 1940 the foundation stone was laid for the new building, which was inaugurated the following year. The local artist Olin Dows produced in the lobby of the building, a mural , parks are depicting scenes from the history of Hyde, from the application of the Halve Maen under Henry Hudson at the nearby Hudson River during its journey from 1609 to the visit of the British king George VI. who visited Roosevelt at his house in 1941 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Margaret L. Marquez: Town of Hyde Park History . Archived from the original on August 13, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 10, 2008.
- ^ Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Remarks Before the Roosevelt Home Club. Hyde Park, New York, August 27, 1938 ( English ) Retrieved June 10, 2008.
- ^ Address at the Dedication of the New Post Office in Rhinebeck, New York. ( English ) Retrieved June 10, 2008.
- ↑ William Rhoads: FDR left mark on nation - and area's building (English) , Poughkeepsie Journal . 2007.
- ↑ Places to Visit ( English ) Retrieved June 10, 2008.
- ↑ Murals in the Hyde Park, New York, Post Office ( English ) Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 10, 2008.
Coordinates: 41 ° 47 ′ 30 " N , 73 ° 56 ′ 11" W.