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.,[2] Long Island City, Queens |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 40°44′44″N 73°56′55″W / 40.74556°N 73.94861°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[1] |
| 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 entablature.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
References
Media related to United States Post Office (Long Island City, Queens) at Wikimedia Commons
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Address based on USPS website. Accessed April 1, 2016.
- ^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on April 4, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2016. Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Long Island City Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved April 1, 2016. and Accompanying five photographs