United States Post Office (Long Island City, Queens)
The Long Island City Post Office is a historic post office building located at Long Island City in Queens County, New York, United States. It was built in 1928, and is one of a number of post offices in New York designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under director James A. Wetmore. The building is a two-story, symmetrically massed brick building with limestone trim in the Colonial Revival style. It features a frontispiece with four semi-engaged limestone Ionic order columns that support a pedimented entablature.[3]
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| Location | 4602 21st St.,[1] Long Island City, Queens |
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| Coordinates | 40°44′44″N 73°56′55″W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1928 |
| Architect | James A. Wetmore, US Treasury Department |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| MPS | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 88002348[2] |
| Added to NRHP | May 11, 1989 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[2]
References
- Address based on USPS website. Accessed April 1, 2016.
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2016-04-01. Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Long Island City Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-01. and Accompanying five photographs
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