This building, which clearly bears the words “US Post Office, Ossining, NY” is, of course, no longer a Post Office. The left part of the building is a hairdresser, and the right part a doctor’s office.

As the Great Depression set in and construction slowed, one more public building completed the Downtown Historic District. The post office had outgrown its space at the Barlow Block again and needed to move. As part of the national relief programs, many new post offices were built. Arthur Ware contributed a restrained Classical Revival one-story brick building on South Highland, between the Cynthard Building and the Presbyterian Church, on the site of what had been the last remaining house on the west side of Main in the district. It was completed in 1933, the newest contributing property in the district.

As the 20th century became the 21st. The post office moved out of this building for a newer facility on the south side of Main Street, in the space cleared three decades earlier by urban renewal opposite the western extent of the district. Its former building (this one) was converted to retail use.

Taken with a Sony RX10 IV