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US Post Office-Lake Placid

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

“US Post Office-Lake Placid is a historic post office building located at Lake Placid in Essex County, New York, United States. It was designed and built 1935-1936, 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.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Lake Placid, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. US Post Office--Lake Placid - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 201 Main St., Lake Placid, 12946
When was it listed? November 1988
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
Town. North Elba town
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88002339 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1896 to 1999

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering US Post Office-Lake Placid, surveyed 1999

Topographic sheet covering US Post Office-Lake Placid, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Lake Placid between 1994 and 2020, burning about 173 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	14
Recreation and ceremony	12
Smoking	10
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BEAR CUB FIRE
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
26 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Lake Placid: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Lyons Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Lyons Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this property

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Placid, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 13 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2001	Lightning	Lake Placid	13 hurt	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Placid	$20,000	Several large limbs and a few trees downed by thunderstorm winds along Oneida, Grandview and Wesvalley roads.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Placid	$10,000	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Placid	$10,000	no account filed
September 1999	Flash Flood	Lake Placid	$10,000	no account filed
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Placid	$5,000	Trees down along Route 86 north of?Lake Placid.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Placid	$5,000	Several trees down.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Placid	$5,000	A few trees down on power lines in Lake Placid.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Placid	$5,000	State police reported several trees down along Route 86 between Lake Placid and Wilmington.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Placid	$5,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flash Flood	Lake Placid	$5,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Placid	$5,000	no account filed
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Placid	$2,000	Tree and limbs down on utility lines.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Placid	$1,000	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Lake Placid	-	Dime size hail reported.
May 2013	Hail	Lake Placid	-	Several reports of quarter-size hail along the northern portions of Lake Placid.
June 2001	Hail	Lake Placid	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1896 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1979 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:25000
1986 USGS Lake Champlain South quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1999 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:25000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
John Brown Farm and Gravesite	2.5 miles	1972
Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run	5.5 miles	2010
Will Rogers Memorial Hospital	6.7 miles	1983
Marquay Cottage	7.3 miles	1992
Partridge Cottage	7.5 miles	1992
Pittenger Cottage	7.5 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002339 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex County	All 114 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.