United States Post Office (Yonkers, New York)
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U.S. Post Office
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South profile and west elevation, 2014
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| Location | Yonkers, NY |
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| Coordinates | 40°56′6″N 73°54′7″W / 40.93500°N 73.90194°WCoordinates: 40°56′6″N 73°54′7″W / 40.93500°N 73.90194°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1927 |
| Architect | James Wetmore |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| MPS | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
| NRHP Reference # | 88002448 |
| Added to NRHP | May 11, 1989 |
The U.S. Post Office for Yonkers, New York, is located on Main Street downtown, opposite the city's train station. It is a two-story stone building erected in the late 1920s. It is located in the 10702 ZIP Code, but serves the entire city, which has other ZIP codes between 10701 and 10710. In 1989 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, along with many other historic post offices in the state.
Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo personally chose the site. The building is one of many of those designed by the Treasury Department's Office of the Supervising Architect under James A. Wetmore. Since it was located in a growing city, it is larger than most other post offices built around the same time. In its Classical Revival design hints of the emerging Art Deco style can be seen. It remains largely intact today.
The post office building occupies the block between Main Street on the south, Buena Vista Avenue on the east, Nepperhan Square on the north and Market Place to the east. The terrain is level, reflecting the proximity of the Hudson River to the west just beyond the railroad tracks used by Amtrak and Metro-North's Hudson Line. The 1911 Beaux-Arts main building of the Yonkers train station is to the northwest. On the north, the square has a small park at its center, yielding to a parking lot on the northeast. The city's new library building is across the square, in buildings once used by the Otis Elevator Company.
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