United States Post Office (Long Island City, Queens)

US Post Office-Long Island City
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Post Office, Long Island City, April 2008
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Location	4602 21st St., [1] Long Island City, Queens
Coordinates	40°44′44″N73°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 No.	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 entablature. ^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. ^[2]

References

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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 April 4, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2016.Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Long Island City Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved April 1, 2016. and Accompanying five photographs