United States Post Office (Harrison, New York)

US Post Office-Harrison
U.S. Post Office, Harrison, New York, July 2010
Location: 258 Halstead Ave., Harrison, New York
Area: less than one acre
Built: 1938
Architect: Simon, Louis A.; Goodwin, Harold
Architectural style: Colonial Revival
Governing body: U.S. Postal Service
MPS: US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP Reference#: 88002524[1]
Added to NRHP: May 11, 1989

US Post Office-Harrison is a historic post office building located at Harrison in Westchester County, New York, United States. It was built in 1938 by the Office of the Supervising Architect under the direction of Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, symmetrically massed building clad with random stone ashlar in the Colonial Revival style. The entrance is flanked by fluted, engaged Doric order columns and pilasters which support a simple entabulature. The slate roof is topped by a square, flat topped cupola. The lobby features a 1941 mural by Harold Goodwin titled "Early Days of the Automobile."[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

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