US Post Office-Frankfort

E. Main St., Frankfort, New York. County/parish: Herkimer.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 11, 1989. NRIS 88002512.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Frankfort Post Office

From Wikipedia:

United States Post Office (Frankfort, New York)

US Post Office-Frankfort is a historic post office building located at Frankfort in Herkimer County, New York, United States. It was built in 1940–1941, 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, Louis A. Simon. It is a one-story, five-bay, steel frame building on a raised foundation in the Colonial Revival style. It features a three-bay central pavilion surmounted by a slate-covered hipped roof. The interior features a 1942 wood relief by artist Albert Wein titled "Growth."

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313110

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