In late 1939, villagers in Ellenville sent Roosevelt a telegram which complained that their new post office was to be brick, despite the presence of pre-Revolutionary stone houses in Ellenville's location, the Rondout Valley.
During the autumn of 1939, residents of Ellenville communicated to Roosevelt about their dissatisfaction regarding the construction of a post office from brick when there were pre-Revolutionary stone structures already present in their town, which is located in the Rondout Valley.