US Post Office-Long Island City

46-02 21st St., New York, New York. County/parish: Queens.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 11, 1989. NRIS 88002348.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Long Island City Post Office

From Wikipedia:

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.

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

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314464

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