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Photograph of United States Post Office
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

US Post Office-Larchmont

Built in 1937 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“The United States Post Office building in Larchmont, New York was constructed in 1937 as part of a program started in 1853 by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department. It is in the Colonial Revival style, which was the most popular style for post offices built in New York after World War I.”

Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Larchmont, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1937, Colonial Revival architecture, by William Dewey Foster.

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--Larchmont - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1 Chatsworth Ave., Larchmont, 10538
  • When was it listed? May 1989
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
  • Town. Mamaroneck town
  • When was it built? 1937
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • Architect. William Dewey Foster
  • National Register reference number. 88002341 - 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

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 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-Larchmont, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering US Post Office-Larchmont, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

350 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 350 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Larchmont between 2000 and 2020, burning about 233 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 42 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined187
Smoking56
Arson/incendiarism42
Natural27
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Larchmont, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011Thunderstorm WindLarchmont$3,000A few trees were reported down in Larchmont.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindLarchmont-Mesonte site XLAR at Larchmont Harbor measured a 62 mph wind gust.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindLarchmont-A gust of 67 mph was measured at the Larchmont Harbor mesonet location.
September 2002Flash FloodLarchmont-Local police reported that Larchmont Park was flooded.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLarchmont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Larchmont Avenue Church0.2 miles2021
Walter's Hot Dog Stand1.1 miles2010
Skinny House1.2 miles2015
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church Complex1.5 miles2003
Rochelle Park-Rochelle Heights Historic District1.6 miles2005
Child Welfare Association of Mamaroneck1.6 miles2021

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88002341 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester CountyAll 250 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.
  • 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.