United States Post Office (Jackson Heights, Queens)

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 original section is a symmetrically massed one story brick building with a nine bay wide principal facade in the Colonial Revival style. It features a three bay entrance pavilion with four simple brick Doric order pilasters which support a limestone triangular pediment. The building was extended four bays to the east in 1964. The interior features a 1940 mural by Peppino Mangravite depicting scenes from the history of Jackson Heights.[3]

US Post Office-Jackson Heights Station
Location7802 37th Ave.,[1]
Jackson Heights, Queens
Coordinates40°44′57″N 73°53′15″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1936
ArchitectBenjamin C. Flournoy, Peppino Mangravite
Architectural styleColonial Revival
MPSUS Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP reference No.88002504[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 (Jackson Heights, 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: Jackson Heights Station Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-01. and Accompanying four photographs


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