Although known around the world as the only US President to win four terms in the White House, and the global leader of the free world during World War Two, nothing kept Hyde Park’s Franklin Roosevelt from involving himself in the teaching and appreciation of local history. He and his wife Eleanore would be thrilled that you are stopping outside the US Post Office he meticulously managed the design and building of in 1940.
The basic form of the post office is a historic house which no longer stands: the Kip-Beekman-Heermance house which was a typical 18th century stone house in Dutch style near the Hudson River.
He dedicated it in the presence of the King and Queen of Denmark.