It is located at the corner of South Avenue (NY 9D) and East Main Street in the village of Wappingers Falls, Dutchess County, New York.

R. Stanley Miller, a local architect who had already designed the similar Rhinebeck post office, was assigned the job.

The village moved most of its functions here and built a new wing — clapboard, not stone, but otherwise consistent with the original design — on the rear of the building to house its police department.

The former post office, now serving as a police station, houses two murals by Henry Billings, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.

The murals are painted on chestnut panels and occupy the triangular space created by the pitched ceiling of the building.