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United States Post Office (Lake Placid, New York)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
88002339

Phone
  
+1 518-523-3071

Architect
  
Louis A. Simon

Built
  
1935

Opened
  
1935

Added to NRHP
  
17 November 1988

United States Post Office (Lake Placid, New York)

Location
  
2951 Main St., Lake Placid, New York

MPS
  
US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR

Address
  
2591 Main St, Lake Placid, NY 12946, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 8:30AM–12:30PMSaturday8:30AM–12:30PMSundayClosedMonday8:30AM–5PMTuesday8:30AM–5PMWednesday8:30AM–5PMThursday8:30AM–5PMFriday8:30AM–5PMSuggest an edit

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

Similar
  
Adirondack Mountains, Herb Brooks Arena, Mount Jo, Pitchoff Mountain, Mirror Lake

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.

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

References

United States Post Office (Lake Placid, New York) Wikipedia