United States Post Office (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

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Location47 Debevoise St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Coordinates 40°42′7″N73°56′28.5″W / 40.70194°N 73.941250°W / 40.70194; -73.941250 Coordinates: 40°42′7″N73°56′28.5″W / 40.70194°N 73.941250°W / 40.70194; -73.941250
Arealess than one acre
Built1936
ArchitectU.S. Treasury Dept.
Architectural styleColonial Revival
MPS US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP reference No. 88002462 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 17, 1988

US Post Office-Metropolitan Station, originally known as Station "A," is a historic post office building located at Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, United States. It was built in 1936, and is one of a number of post offices in New York designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon. The building is a two-story, flat roofed brick building with a three bay wide central pavilion flanked by three bay wide wings in the Colonial Revival style. [2] A contributing architect is believed to be Lorimer Rich.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Larry E. Gobrecht (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Metropolitan Station Post Office". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved 2010-10-01.See also: "Accompanying four photos".