United States Post Office (Jackson Heights, Queens)
US Post Office-Jackson Heights Station | |
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Location | 7802 37th Ave.,[2] Jackson Heights, Queens |
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Coordinates | 40°44′57″N 73°53′15″W / 40.74917°N 73.88750°WCoordinates: 40°44′57″N 73°53′15″W / 40.74917°N 73.88750°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1936 |
Architect | Benjamin C. Flournoy, Peppino Mangravite |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
MPS | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
NRHP reference No. | 88002504[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 17, 1988 |
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 (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]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
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Media related to United States Post Office (Jackson Heights, Queens) at Wikimedia Commons
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Address based on USPS website. Accessed April 1, 2016.
- ^ "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
- Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York City
- Government buildings completed in 1936
- Colonial Revival architecture in New York City
- Government buildings in Queens, New York
- Jackson Heights, Queens
- National Register of Historic Places in Queens, New York
- Queens County, New York Registered Historic Place stubs
- Queens, New York building and structure stubs