US Post Office-Lake Placid is a historic

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional ser ...

building located at Lake Placid in Essex County, New York,

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. It was designed and built 1935–1936, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the

Office of the Supervising Architect The Office of the Supervising Architect was an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings from 1852 to 1939. The office handled some of the most important architectural commissions of the nineteenth ...

of the Treasury Department under Louis A. Simon. The building is in the

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archit ...

style and is a one-story, five-bay, steel-framed building on a raised foundation with a cast-stone watertable and clad in orange/buff-colored brick. The interior features a group of murals executed in 1937 by Henry Billings. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying five photographs''
/ref> It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1988.

References

Lake Placid Government buildings completed in 1935 Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state) Buildings and structures in Essex County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, New York {{EssexCountyNY-NRHP-stub