United States Post Office (Long Island City, Queens)

US Post Office-Long Island City

U.S. Post Office, Long Island City, April 2008
Location 4602 21st St.,[1]
Long Island City, Queens
Coordinates 40°44′44″N 73°56′55″W / 40.74556°N 73.94861°W / 40.74556; -73.94861Coordinates: 40°44′44″N 73°56′55″W / 40.74556°N 73.94861°W / 40.74556; -73.94861
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 # 88002348[2]
Added to NRHP May 11, 1989

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 entabulature.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[2]

References

  1. Address based on USPS website. Accessed April 1, 2016.
  2. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. 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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