US Post Office-Metropolitan Station
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Location: | 47 Debevoise St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn |
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Area: | less than one acre |
Built: | 1936 |
Architect: | U.S. Treasury Dept. |
Architectural style: | Colonial Revival |
Governing body: | U.S. Postal Service |
MPS: | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
NRHP Reference#: | 88002462[1] |
Added to NRHP: | November 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]