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United States Post Office (Spring Valley, New York)

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Etnier's mural, meant to show how mail could and did reach even the most isolated people and linked the world, was added in 1938. Later renovations enlarged the lobby teller windows and added modern lighting. There have been no other significant changes to the building.
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A row of mature trees rises along the rear of the property. To the south is the post office's parking lot, complementing a municipal lot across the street. The small lot on the Church Street corner is undeveloped and open. To the rear is a tire dealership.
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cornice on the wall marks the plaster ceiling where modern fluorescent lights have replaced the original fixtures. There is also an original wooden cornice over the teller windows, which have been widened and surrounded with blue
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The two wings have flat roofs pierced by brick chimneys topped with steel air handlers. On the front they have one six-over-six window. The west (rear) facade echoes the front with three large sash windows.
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Louis A. Simon, is unique to Spring Valley among the many Colonial Revival post offices in the state, many of which use variations on a basic design. Other post offices in the state, such as
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The post office is located on the west side of North Madison Avenue between Church and Commerce streets, one block west of North Main Street (
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to build a stop where a farm road (now North Main Street) crossed the tracks. The settlement grew rapidly due to the rail connection to
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In 1931, Congress authorized 136 new post offices and extensions to existing ones in New York as part of an amendment to the
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at the center of one arm of an L-shaped lobby covering all but the northern bay of the front. That arm is floored in
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railings and one original lamppost, slightly modified. The main entrance is surrounded by elaborate wooden
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with the pilasters and pediment. Another architect, Jackson Flournoy, used them on his post office in the
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Spring Valley's first post office was established in 1848, seven years after local farmers persuaded the
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it had passed five years earlier. The construction was meant to offer relief with the worsening of the
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Above the door to the postmaster's office in the northeastern corner of the building is a
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Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
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precedents of the style. Its interior, like many other post offices built during the
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on the north, lead up to the main entrance. They are accompanied by the original
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The building itself has two sections. The main block is a one-story five-by-five-
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design, unique to Spring Valley among post offices in New York, emphasizes the
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divide the bays and mark the corners. They support a wooden
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Just around the corner from the Spring Valley Post Office
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runs around the wall, and pilasters mark the corners. A
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extends west from the southwest corner of that side.
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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It is faced in red brick laid in 25: 1273: 1263: 1254: 1253: 754: 747: 365:with radiating sash. 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U.S. Post Office (Spring Valley, New York)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

United States Post Office (Spring Valley, New York) is located in New York
United States Post Office (Spring Valley, New York) is located in the United States
Spring Valley
NY
Hackensack, NJ
41°6′46″N 74°2′44″W / 41.11278°N 74.04556°W / 41.11278; -74.04556
Colonial Revival
MPS
US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
88002432
Spring Valley
ZIP Code
Colonial Revival
Greek Revival
New Deal
public art
National Register of Historic Places
New York State Route 45
tributary
Pascack Brook
bay
steel frame
foundation
water table
common bond
pitched
gabled

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