United States Post Office (Hyde Park, New York)

The U.S. Post Office Hyde Park is the post office in Hyde Park, New York that serves the area of the zip code 12538. It is designed as a stonework building in the architectural style of the Dutch Colonial Revival located in the East Market Street east of the intersection with U.S. Highway 9 The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

The Post Office as an institution is of local historical significance as the place has derived its name from the first post office, which was located in the Hyde Park Inn. The original name of the settlement was Stoutenburgh, the new name has been used more and more and in 1812 officially. Nine years later, the city was re- stated under the new name.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a son of the city Hyde Park dealt personally with the construction of the new building, which was built during the New Deal. He had personally advocated that the construction of the post office were built in Poughkeepsie and later in Rhinebeck from occurring there fieldstone.

In his speech at the groundbreaking ceremony for the U.S. Post Office in Rhinebeck Roosevelt warned Postmaster General James Farley and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. joked that she would lose her job if not enough federal funding to build a new post office in Hyde Park to should be available.