United States Post Office (Flushing, Queens)
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US Post Office-Flushing Main
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Flushing Main Post Office, April 2009
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| Location | 4165 Main St.,[2] Flushing, Queens |
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| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1932 |
| Architect | Dwight James Baum, William W. Knowles |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| MPS | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
| NRHP Reference # | 88002507[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 17, 1988 |
US Post Office-Flushing Main is a historic post office building located at Flushing in Queens County, New York, United States. It was designed and built between 1932 and 1934 by architect Dwight James Baum and William W. Knowles as consulting architects to the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a symmetrically massed, two story steel frame building clad in oversize handmade red brick with marble trim in the Colonial Revival style. Its main facade features an entrance portico consisting of six Ionic columns that support a full pedimented entabulature. The interior features a mural executed in 1933-34 by Vincent Aderente.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
References
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- ↑ Address based on USPS website. Accessed April 1, 2016.
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- Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York City
- Government buildings completed in 1934
- Colonial Revival architecture in New York
- Buildings and structures in Queens, New York
- Flushing, Queens
- National Register of Historic Places in Queens County, New York
- Queens County, New York Registered Historic Place stubs
