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US Post Office-Port Chester

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“US Post Office-Port Chester is a historic post office building located at Port Chester in Westchester County, New York. It was designed by consulting architects Zoller and Muller for the Office of the Supervising Architect, built in 1932-1933, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”

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

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1989 · 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--Port Chester - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 245 Westchester Ave., Port Chester, 10573
  • When was it listed? May 1989
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
  • Town. Rye town
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88002406 - 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.

Fires near this property

297 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Port Chester between 2000 and 2020, burning about 225 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined161
Smoking47
Arson/incendiarism25
Recreation and ceremony22
Natural17
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
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
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing 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
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Westchester 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-Port Chester: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Christiano Oak Ridge Diorite Gneiss Rock QuarryStonePast Producer1833
Christiano Hamilton Avenue Diorite Gneiss Rock QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer1873
Ritch Diorite Gneiss Rock QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerUnknown
Voorhis Diorite Gneiss Rock QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Christiano Hamilton Avenue QuarryGranitePast Producer
Chritiano Oak Ridge QuarryGranitePast Producer
Ritch QuarryGranitePast Producer
Voorhis QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Chester, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 WindPort Chester$3,000A few trees were reported down in Port Chester.
August 2008Flash FloodPort Chester-Approximately 20 inches of standing water was reported on Fox Island Rd. in Port Chester. Basements of residences on Midland Ave. in Rye were also flooded with water. The ASOS at Westchester County Airport in White Plains recorded 1.39 inches of rain.
June 1997LightningPort Chester-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

13 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
St. Peter's Episcopal Church0.1 miles2006
Capitol Theater0.2 miles1984
Life Savers Building0.3 miles1985
Putnam and Mellor Engine and Hose Company Firehouse0.3 miles1983
Bush-Lyon Homestead0.7 miles1982
US Post Office-Rye1.5 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88002406 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.
  • 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.