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It was designed and built in 1911–1913 and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, James Knox Taylor. The original, main block is a 1-story, five-by-three-bay building clad in stucco and executed in the Classical Revival style.
US Post Office-Bronxville is a historic post office building located at Bronxville in Westchester County, New York, United States.It was built in 1937 and was designed by consulting architect Eric Kebbon (1891–1964) for the Office of the Supervising Architect.
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.
US Post Office-Forest Hills Station is a historic post office building located at Forest Hills in Queens County, New York, United States.It was built in 1937, and was designed by architect Lorimer Rich as a consultant to the Office of the Supervising Architect.
Its sub-station is located on East 3rd Street near Avenue C. Digital photo of the Cooper Station postmark on a letter sent by East-Village-based poet W. H. Auden in 1965. The post office is named in honor of Peter Cooper, the mid-19th century industrialist and philanthropist who founded the nearby The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science ...
US Post Office-Jackson Heights Station is a historic post office building located at Jackson Heights in Queens County, New York, United States.The original section was built in 1936–1937, and was designed by architect Benjamin C. Flournoy (1876-ca. 1939) as a consultant to the Office of the Supervising Architect.
The Colonial Revival style had been popular for new post offices in New York from 1905 on, when the Geneva post office in the Finger Lakes region became the first in the state to use it. It was heavily used in the 1920s and later on in the 1930s, when new construction intensified as the government tried to alleviate the effects of the Great ...
It is located on Liberty Place in the center of the village. The building was one of many post offices in the region which were built of stone, reflecting the historical Dutch influence in the Hudson Valley, during the New Deal by the Works Progress Administration. President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally approved the design. [2]