U.S. Post Office (Rhinebeck, New York)
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U.S. Post Office
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East elevation, 2007
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| Location | 6383 Mill St. Rhinebeck, NY |
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| Nearest city | Kingston |
| Coordinates | 41°55′35″N 73°54′48″W / 41.92639°N 73.91333°WCoordinates: 41°55′35″N 73°54′48″W / 41.92639°N 73.91333°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1940 |
| Architect | Olin Dows, R. Stanley-Brown |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| Part of | Rhinebeck Village Historic District |
| MPS | U.S. Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
| NRHP reference # | 88002419 |
| Added to NRHP | May 11, 1989 |
The U.S. Post Office in Rhinebeck, New York serves the 12572 ZIP Code. It is located on Mill Street (US 9) just south of the intersection with NY 308 at the center of the village.
It is a stone Colonial Revival structure built in 1940, during the New Deal. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a native of nearby Hyde Park, took a personal interest in its design, as he did with other post offices in Dutchess County built during his administration. He chose a ruined historic house, whose stones were used in the post office, as its model, and spoke at its dedication. In 1989 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also a contributing property to the Rhinebeck Village Historic District.
The post office is a one-and-a-half-story fieldstone building with a low-sloping jerkin roof shingled in asbestos treated to look like wood. It flares out over a porch that runs the length of the eastern (front) elevation. Two large brick chimneys rise from the ends, both next to a small dormer window on the north and south faces.
The porch is wooden, supported by square piers, with a bluestone floor. At either end of the facade are the large cornerstones, also of bluestone. One is a standard datestone giving the names of the participants in the ceremony; the other says that the building is a replica of the 1700 Beekman House and that stones from the ruins of that house were used to build the post office. The main entrance, a simulated Dutch door, is within a wooden vestibule.
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