U.S. Post Office (Troy, New York)
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U.S. Post Office
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West profile, 2009
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| Location | Troy, NY |
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| Coordinates | 42°43′53″N 73°41′18″W / 42.73139°N 73.68833°WCoordinates: 42°43′53″N 73°41′18″W / 42.73139°N 73.68833°W |
| Built | 1934-36 |
| Architect | Louis Simon |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| Part of | Central Troy Historic District |
| MPS | U.S. Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
| NRHP Reference # | 88002438 |
| Added to NRHP | 1989 |
The U.S. Post Office in Troy, New York, United States, is located at 400 Broadway, on the corners of Fourth (US 4) and William Streets, the tenth location it has occupied in the city's history. It serves the ZIP Codes 12179 through 12182, which cover different sections of the city. In 1989 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and it is also a contributing property to the Central Troy Historic District, which covers much of the city's downtown commercial area.
It was built during the Great Depression as part of a massive statewide public works initiative to stimulate the economy and provide jobs. Louis Simon, supervising architect for the Treasury Department, used a stripped-down Classical Revival style for the post office, which replaced a much-beloved older one. Painter Waldo Peirce added two murals to the building's lobby in 1938, making Troy's one of only three post offices in the U.S. with his artwork.
The post office is a two-story, 7-by-10-bay steel frame building on granite foundation. Its two main facades (Broadway and Fourth) frame their entrances with engaged two-story pilasters on molded bases and capitals. At the top of the pilasters is a simple frieze. At the end bays the frieze is decorated with abstract stars and stripes with winged shields at the corners, where the stone surface beneath them changes from ashlar to rusticated. The Broadway frieze has the words "UNITED STATES POST OFFICE", reflecting the main entrance located underneath it.
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