United States Post Office (Saratoga Springs, New York)

The U.S. Post Office in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States, is located at 475 Broadway at the intersection of Church Street in the center of the city.

It is a brick structure built in 1910 in the Classical Revival architectural style, and was designed by James Knox Taylor, supervising architect for the Treasury Department.

The lobby has since been altered somewhat, but enough of the building's integrity and original design remains that it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

[2] It is rectangular, one story high, three bays by four with a flat roof and faced in yellow pressed Roman brick on a foundation of finished granite.

The short roof parapet has limestone coping and, at a higher section over the main entrance, foliated brackets.

It is a semicircular arch with a plainly molded archivolt supported by freestanding Doric columns of veined and polished marble.

[2] The flanking windows, and the easternmost bays on the north and south facades, have a similar treatment except for the columns being pedestaled on a balustrade.

[2] Inside, the lobby has a 14-foot–high (4.3 m) plaster coffered ceiling with a central leaded glass skylight, curved to match the angle of the rear wall.

He had already established the neoclassical style of the day as his preferred choice for public buildings, to reflect an embrace of the classically influenced ideals of the country's Founding Fathers.

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