This post office was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of a Multiple Property Submission.

This surge was intended both to address the long-term need for new government facilities, as well as to employ out-of-work architects, engineers, artists, and other construction industry workers who were unemployed as a result of the Great Depression.

The economic climate made it necessary to focus on functional design and a restraint in the amount of ornamentation used.

The post office was designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster.

[2] The Treasury Department Section of Painting and Sculpture also commissioned two realistic murals depicting Larchmont scenes from that era.