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The U.S. Post Office in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States, is located at the junction of Broadway (US 9/NY 29/NY 50) and Church Street (NY 9N) in the center of the city. It is an early 20th-century brick structure in the Classical Revival architectural style, designed by James Knox Taylor, supervising architect for the Treasury Department. The post office serves the ZIP Code 12866, covering the city of Saratoga Springs. At the time of its construction and opening it had one of the most elaborate lobbies of any post office in the state. Two murals depicting the city's race track were added to it in the 1930s. 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. It had already been a contributing property to the Broadway Historic District since that was first designated in 1978. ==Building== The post office is set back somewhat from Broadway. There are mature trees and some landscaping between the sidewalk and street. It is one of four notable buildings at the busy intersection. Across the street is the city's Italianate city hall. On the far corner is the elaborate, massive Ainsworth Building, and the 1916 Beaux-Arts marble Adirondack Trust Company building faces the post office across Church Street.〔 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. Both marble and limestone are used as trim. Above the window level a limestone egg-and-dart course goes around the building. Above it is an entablature with a frieze decorated with a geometric pattern of red and yellow brick. The cornice is dentilled with plain modillions and shallow panels between. The short roof parapet has limestone coping and, at a higher section over the main entrance, foliated brackets.〔 The middle bay on the east (front) elevation projects. It is a semicircular arch with a plainly molded archivolt supported by freestanding Doric columns of veined and polished marble. A recessed bronze screen has windows in the top and the main doors below. Granite steps with a central bronze rail lead up to it. The original heavy bronze doors are still in place although they have been funcationally replaced by modern aluminum doors. A Greek key design is embellished around the doors, and "POST OFFICE" is written above.〔 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. The other window openings on the north and south facades are recessed, their plain limestone sills supported by brackets. Their arches have windows with radiating wooden muntins. A small vertical window is located between the easternmost, projecting bay and the next one. On the south facade a wheelchair ramp climbs up and offers access at this point. The north side has an open brick loading dock that covers part of the rear.〔 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. The walls themselves are lined with segmented recessed arches, topped by an egg-and-dart cornice. The entrance arch has a similar surround. On either side of the vestibule are murals by Guy Pène du Bois entitled ''Saratoga in the Racing Season''.〔 The floor has modern carpeting; a white marble baseboard and green marble wainscoting surround part of the lobby. A 9-foot–high (3 m) screenline with post office boxes divides it in half. Teller windows are on the north side.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United States Post Office (Saratoga Springs, New York)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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