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US Post Office-Bronxville

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“US Post Office-Bronxville is a historic post office building located at Bronxville in Westchester County, New York, United States. It was built in 1937 and was designed by consulting architect Eric Kebbon (1891-1964) for the Office of the Supervising Architect.”

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

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester 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--Bronxville - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Pondfield Rd., Bronxville, 10708
  • When was it listed? November 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
  • Town. Eastchester town
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88002459 - 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-Bronxville, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering US Post Office-Bronxville, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

1,170 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,170 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Bronxville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 603 acres in total. 79 started naturally. 111 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/undetermined777
Arson/incendiarism111
Natural79
Smoking74
Recreation and ceremony62
Equipment and vehicle use31
Debris and open burning18
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Other causes5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
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 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of US Post Office-Bronxville: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, Tellurium, Selenium, Palladium, Platinum. 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
(Facility) Laurel Hill RefineryCopper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, Tellurium, Selenium, Palladium, PlatinumPlant

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bronxville, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 6 flash flood, 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindBronxville$15,000A microburst impacted the city of Mount Vernon, bringing down large trees, with the most significant damage on Packman Avenue. Based upon the survey, winds with the microburst were estimated from 65 to 75 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBronxville$3,000A few trees were reported down in Bronxville.
April 2018Flash FloodBronxville-The northbound Sprain Brook Parkway was closed due to flooding in Yonkers.
April 2018Flash FloodBronxville-The Bronx River Parkway was closed at Exit 1 in Bronxville due to flooding.
October 2016FloodBronxville-The Bronx River Parkway was closed due to flooding from the Sprain Brook Parkway to the County Center in White Plains.
December 2014FloodBronxville-The Bronx River Pkwy. was closed between exit 21 and the Sprain Brook Pkwy. in Scarsdale due to flooding.
March 2010FloodBronxville-The Hutchinson River Pkwy was closed in both directions between the Cross County Pkwy in Pelham and the Bronx-Westchester County border.
August 2008Flash FloodBronxville-Several entrance ramps were closed on the Hutchinson River Pkwy. and the Cross County Pkwy. in Mount Vernon due to flooding.
September 2008Flash FloodBronxville-The Sprain Brook Pkwy (southbound) was closed where it merges with the Bronx River Pkwy. in Mount Vernon due to flooding.
September 2008Flash FloodBronxville-The Hutchinson River Parkway was closed at Cross County Parkway in New Rochelle due to flooding.
July 2005Flash FloodBronxville-Bronx River Parkway closed due to flash flooding.
September 2003Heavy RainBronxville-Periods of heavy rain resulted in small rivers overflowing their banks onto adjacent roads, which resulted in road closures.In Westchester County, the Bronx River overflowed its' banks onto sections of the Bronx River Parkway. A section of the parkway that runs under Palmer Road on the Yonkers Bronxville Border was submerged to the roadway guard rail. Westchester County police reported that sections of the Bronx River Parkway, including the Main Street Exit in White Plains (both north and south bound) were closed. Flooding also occurred near Palmer Road and the Scout Field Area near Midland Ave. The Saw Mill River Parkway at Manville Road in Pleasantville was also closed.
November 1997HailBronxville-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
Masterton-Dusenberry House0.4 miles1980
Bronxville Womens' Club0.5 miles2007
Lawrence Park Historic District0.5 miles1980
Eleazer Hart House0.5 miles1982
Plashbourne Estate0.8 miles2007
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Hall of Records0.8 miles2014

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88002459 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.