Talk:United States Post Office (Nyack, New York)

Treasury's post offices?
The article reads, "Treasury began preferring the newer Colonial Revival style for its post offices", but the Post Office Department was independent (and thus not in the Treasury) since the founding of the U.S. federal government. The Treasury owned no post offices. This could be rewritten, at least to clarify it... --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 01:05, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * The Treasury was in charge of building all the post offices, and many other government buildings. Will clarify. Daniel Case (talk) 01:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Renamed...
Since the post office was renamed (in memory of Brinks robbery (1981) victims), should the article name not reflect that change? -M.Nelson (talk) 02:35, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * A lot of post offices get renamed in this "official" yet symbolic way. It's never put on the front of the building, nobody uses it in conversation, therefore it's not the common name that we're supposed to prefer. Daniel Case (talk) 04:42, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Simply incorrect
"Classical Revival architectural style, a mode rarely used for American post offices between the wars. This may simply register unfamiliarity with Classical style, which includes neo-Colonial and neo-Georgian styles, or with the history. Few post offices between the wars were erected in other alternatives, like international modern style, art deco or in neo-Gothic It would be hard to identify a US post office 1918-40 not in classical style. I pointed this out at DYK, so the insistence here is puzzling.--Wetman (talk) 03:51, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Because it was disputed there when you did, that's why. Most post offices between the wars used that strict red brick Colonial Revival form (sometimes with cupola and weathervane), restricting themselves to those neoclassical aspects used in Colonial buildings. This one didn't, using the more contemporary neoclassical vocabulary (and yellow brick). Daniel Case (talk) 04:44, 9 September 2009 (UTC)