It was designed and built 1937–1938, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under Louis A. Simon.

The interior features a 1939 mural by Axel Horn titled "Settlement of Skenesborough.

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

[1] Media related to United States Post Office (Whitehall, New York) at Wikimedia Commons

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