Wappingers Falls Village Hall

Wappingers Falls Village Hall is a former post office and a current Village Hall in Wappingers Falls in Dutchess County, New York at the intersection of South Street (New York State Route 9D) and East Main Street. The building was constructed in 1940 and was a project of the Works Progress Administration. The then U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally took control of the project, as he had already done it with the new post office buildings in other settlements of Dutches County.

Roosevelt wished that the building was built with fieldstone, in the style of many houses from the period of Dutch colonization of the Hudson Valley, and opted for the Brouier - Mesier - house in the village as a model for the design. The locally -based architect Stanley R. Miller, of the Post Office in Rhinebeck, New York was already planning the local post office in a similar design, was hired for the work.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It was previously a part of the Wappingers Falls Historic District, which was in 1984 entered in the register. The U.S. Postal Service now moved to a bigger building, situated a few road blocks on East Main Street. The management of the Village uses since the building to fulfill a large part of the administrative tasks and built a new wing. Although this is shingle clad, but otherwise matching the original design. The extension at the rear of the building houses the police station.

The other post offices in Dutches County, on the planning Roosevelt influence has taken are:

• U.S. Post Office Beacon
• U.S. Post Office Ellenville
• U.S. Post Office Hyde Park
• U.S. Post Office Poughkeepsie
• U.S. Post Office Rhinebeck