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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