sentences:  The site chosen, across from what was then the Erie Railroad station (now the headquarters of the village police department), had been vacant since the St. Elmo Hotel (built 1887) burned down in 1920.In November 1934 it was condemned by the Treasury Department, the Post Office's then-parent agency.Samuel Plato was awarded the $85,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) contract and construction of the new building was completed in early 1936.