US Post Office-Metropolitan Station

47 Debevoise St., New York, New York. County/parish: Kings.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 17, 1988. NRIS 88002462.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Metropolitan Post Office

From Wikipedia:

United States Post Office (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

US Post Office-Metropolitan Station, originally known as Station "A," is a historic post office building located at Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, United States. It was built in 1936, and is one of a number of post offices in New York designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon. The building is a two-story, flat roofed brick building with a three bay wide central pavilion flanked by three bay wide wings in the Colonial Revival style. A contributing architect is believed to be Lorimer Rich.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313317

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