United States Post Office (Flushing, Queens)

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 entablature. The interior features a mural executed in 1933-34 by Vincent Aderente.[3]

US Post Office-Flushing Main
Flushing Main Post Office, April 2009
Location4165 Main St.,[1]
Flushing, Queens
Coordinates40.7564°N 73.8283°W / 40.7564; -73.8283
Arealess than one acre
Built1932
ArchitectDwight James Baum, William W. Knowles
Architectural styleColonial Revival
MPSUS Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP reference No.88002507[2]
Added to NRHPNovember 17, 1988

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[2]

References

Media related to United States Post Office (Flushing, Queens) at Wikimedia Commons

  1. Address based on USPS website. Accessed April 1, 2016.
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  3. "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2016-04-01. Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Flushing Main Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-01. and Accompanying three photographs


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