Franklin and Main Sts., Pearl River, New York. County/parish: Rockland.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 17, 1988. NRIS 88002399.
Part of US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR (NRIS 64000597).
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The U.S. Post Office in Pearl River, New York, is located at the junction of Franklin Avenue and South Main Street in the hamlet's downtown. It is a brick building from the mid-1930s, serving the ZIP Code 10965, which covers the hamlet of Pearl River.
Its design, an application of the Colonial Revival architectural style commonly used for post offices of that era, is unique to it. It shows a strong modernist influence, with almost no ornament on its exterior, and no public art inside.
In 1988 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places with many other contemporary post offices in the state, including four others in Rockland County. Congress renamed the building the Heinz Ahlmeyer, Jr. Post Office Building in 2005, in honor of a local soldier missing in action and presumed dead during the Vietnam War until that year, when his remains were identified.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314526