US Post Office Wappingers Falls

The building in 2007.

Wappingers Falls Village Hall is a former post office and now a Village Hall in Wappingers Falls in Dutchess County , New York at the intersection of South Street ( New York State Route 9D ) and East Main Street. The building was constructed in 1940 and was a Works Progress Administration project . The then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally influenced the project, as he had already done with the new post office buildings in other settlements in Dutches County.

Roosevelt wanted the building to be built with field stones, in the style of the many houses from the time of the Dutch colonization of the Hudson Valley, and decided on the Brouier-Mesier House in the village as a model for the design. The locally-based architect R. Stanley Miller, of the post office in already in similar design Rhinebeck , New York, the post office local planning, has been committed for work.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 . It was previously part of the Wappingers Falls Historic District , which had already been registered in 1984. The US Postal Service has since moved to a larger building a few blocks away on East Main Street. Since then, the administration of the village has been using the building to perform a large part of its administrative tasks and has added a new wing. This is clad in clapboard , but otherwise matches the original design. The extension at the back of the building houses the police station.

The other post offices in Dutches County that Roosevelt helped plan are:

• US Post Office Beacon
• US Post Office Ellenville
• US Post Office Hyde Park
• US Post Office Poughkeepsie
• US Post Office Rhinebeck

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wappingers and Ellenville Post Offices . Retrieved July 5, 2008.

Coordinates: 41 ° 35 ′ 49 ″  N , 73 ° 55 ′ 5 ″  W.