United States Post Office (Dobbs Ferry, New York)

The U.S. Post Office Dobbs Ferry is the post office for the ZIP code 10522 and served as Dobbs Ferry in Westchester County, New York in the United States. It is a brick building in the style of Colonial Revival at the corner of Main and Oak Street in the center of the Village.

The post office was built in 1936 as part of an extensive building program for post offices. With its detailed ornamentation, it is unusual for the architectural style of Colonial Revival. Only two other post offices in the rural part of the state of New York are similarly detailed. For this reason, the building was added in 1988 in the National Register of Historic Places.

Building

The post office is a one-story steel-framed building with five on five bays and is located on a corner lot. The floor falls from the back area toward the western facade; Hudson River is just a small piece in this direction away. That's why it was built on a raised plinth. There is a three yokes exciting extension to the rear.

The base and the facade is built of red brick in running bond. The front section of the building in the depths of a yoke has a gable roof of copper, its gables are designed as raised parapets. The rest of the building has a flat roof. A mural crown made ​​of artificial stone surrounds the entire roof and is located on the front panel between the roof eaves facade and an engineered wood roof cornice. Letters of bronze over the entrance to identify the building as a post office in Dobbs Ferry.

The entrance is in the center of the main facade. There is an archway with flanking wooden post with overlying pediment. The lintels are also built of brick, with the capstone is a contrasting color. Two iron lanterns frame the entrance.

Inside is the L-shaped main hall, which includes four of the five spans. The floor is made of orange -colored stone tiles, and is located on the walls to a height switch in reaching Lambris. The stucco ceiling is vaulted. The wooden frame of the message boards and windows, and the iron grating at the row of windows are original.

History

Dobbs Ferry had a post office already under its previous name Wickquaequeeck and Greenburgh, before the town was incorporated in 1872 and the name change took place. 1915 began the U.S. Postal Service, then part of the Treasury Department, to unify its branches in the country. This trend reached Dobbs Ferry in the early 1930s, when the post office is one of 136 post offices in the state was, which was approved with an addition to the Public Buildings Act of 1931.

The Congress of the United States, however, managed in 1934 to provide funding for the new post office in Dobbs Ferry. In November 1934, the property was purchased at a price of 11,700 U.S. dollars and the owner of an existing retail and residential building expropriated to make way for the new building. The Congress then put 95,000 U.S. dollars ( inflation-adjusted 1.676 million U.S. dollars) for the construction ready, and the contractor Brothers Summit began with the construction. The new post office was opened in 1936.

The draft by the then chief architect of the Treasury Department's Louis A. Simon adheres to the style of Colonial Revival, which were built for the most post offices that distributed crisscrossing New York after 1905, is common. Most of these buildings were simple, spartan in a sense, and the ornamented facade of the post office in Dobbs Ferry is a deviation from the norm. In New York, only the post offices in Granville and Hudson Falls with a parapet gable provided and keystones above the windows.

The building remained largely intact since its construction. Modern aluminum frame doors were installed at the entrance, as well as a modern lighting system. The clearest is to replace the original double staircase at the front entrance by a ramp for wheelchair users, since 1990 federal building a barrier -free access was required by the Americans with Disabilities Act of.