Riverhead Post Office is a United States
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located at 1210 West Main Street in
Riverhead, New YorkRiverhead is a census-designated place roughly corresponding to the hamlet by the same name located in the town of Riverhead in Suffolk County, New York on Long Island...
. It serves the
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11901, covering all of Riverhead, along with Roanoke, Reeves Park, Centerville, northern
JamesportJamesport is a census-designated place that roughly corresponds to the hamlet by the same name in the town of Riverhead in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The CDP's population was 1,526 at the 2000 census. Jamesport is known for its quaint downtown area including antique shops and...
, and northwestern
LaurelLaurel is a census-designated place roughly corresponding to the hamlet in Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is in the towns of Southold and Riverhead. The population was 1,188 at the 2000 census.- History :...
.
The old Riverhead Post Office was designed by
Louis A. SimonLouis A. Simon was an American architect.Simon was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following a tour of Europe, he opened an architectural office in Baltimore, Maryland in 1894....
who was
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for the United States Treasury Department. Simon also designed the Post Office buildings in Bay Shore,
NorthportNorthport Post Office, the U.S. post office in Northport, New York, is located at 244 Main Street in Northport, New York. It serves the ZIP code 11768, which also includes Asharoken, Eaton's Neck, Vernon Valley, Middleville, and Fort Salonga....
, and
Westhampton BeachWesthampton Beach Post Office, the U.S. post office in Westhampton Beach, New York, is located at Main Street and Beach Road in Westhampton Beach, New York. It serves the ZIP code 11978 and is southeast of the Westhampton Post Office....
. According to the Riverhead Town Historian, the land for the Post Office was purchased in 1932, with the building erected in 1935 and dedicated in November of that year. The post office was a depression-era public works project. It is built in a simplified Colonial Revival style.
As with Patchogue and Smithtown's Village of the Branch, Riverhead Post Office was known as a source for obscure postal denominations by Long Island-based
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. The building was added to the
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in 1989.
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