Riverhead Post Office is a United States post office located at 1210 West Main Street in

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. It serves the ZIP code 11901, covering all of Riverhead, along with Roanoke, Reeves Park, Centerville, northern Jamesport, and northwestern Laurel. The old Riverhead Post Office was designed by

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who was

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for the United States Treasury Department. Simon also designed the Post Office buildings in

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, Northport, and

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. According to the Riverhead Town Historian, the land for the Post Office was purchased in 1932, with the building erected in 1935 and dedicated in November of that year. The post office was a depression-era public works project. It is built in a simplified Colonial Revival style. an
''Accompanying three photos, exterior and interior, from 1984''
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and Smithtown's

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, Riverhead Post Office was known as a source for obscure postal denominations by Long Island-based

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. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.Suffolk County Listings at the National Register of Historic Places.COM, a private website
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Riverhead (town), New York Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state) Government buildings completed in 1935 National Register of Historic Places in Suffolk County, New York Buildings and structures in Suffolk County, New York