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United States Post Office (Lake Placid, New York)

Coordinates: 44°17′7″N 73°59′2″W / 44.28528°N 73.98389°W / 44.28528; -73.98389
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US Post Office--Lake Placid
U.S. Post Office, September 2008
United States Post Office (Lake Placid, New York) is located in New York
United States Post Office (Lake Placid, New York)
United States Post Office (Lake Placid, New York) is located in the United States
United States Post Office (Lake Placid, New York)
Location2951 Main St.,[2]
Lake Placid, New York
Coordinates44°17′7″N 73°59′2″W / 44.28528°N 73.98389°W / 44.28528; -73.98389
Arealess than one acre
Built1935
ArchitectLouis A. Simon, Henry Billings
Architectural styleColonial Revival
MPSUS Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP reference No.88002339[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 17, 1988

US Post Office-Lake Placid is a historic post office building located at Lake Placid in Essex County, New York, United States. It was designed and built 1935–1936, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under Louis A. Simon. The building is in the Colonial Revival style and is a one-story, five-bay, steel-framed building on a raised foundation with a cast-stone watertable and clad in orange/buff-colored brick. The interior features a group of murals executed in 1937 by Henry Billings.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Address based on USPS website. Accessed March 31, 2016.
  3. ^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2016-03-01. Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (December 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Lake Placid Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-03-01. and Accompanying five photographs