United States Post Office (Endicott, New York) Explained

US Post Office-Endicott
Location:200 Washington Ave., Endicott, New York
Coordinates:42.1006°N -76.0486°W
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Marker:building
Mapframe-Zoom:12
Mapframe-Caption:Interactive map showing the location for U.S. Post Office-Endicott
Built:1936
Architect:Whitlack, Walter; Crockwell, Douglass
Architecture:Colonial Revival
Added:November 17, 1988
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:88002498

US Post Office-Endicott is an historic post office building located at Endicott in Broome County, New York. It was designed and built in 1936 and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by a consulting architect for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Walter Whitlack. It is a one-story, nine bay steel frame, cream-colored brick clad building on a raised granite-clad foundation executed in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a 1938 mural titled "Excavating for the Ideal Factory" by Douglass Crockwell.[1]

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Endicott Post Office. December 1986. 2009-11-10 . Larry E. Gobrecht . New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. See also: Web site: Accompanying five photos.