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US Post Office-Canal Street Station
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Canal Street Station, February 2009
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| Location: | 350 Canal St., New York, New York |
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| Area: | 1.9 acres (0.77 ha) |
| Built: | 1937 |
| Architect: | Mills, Alan Balch; Williams, Wheeler |
| Architectural style: | Moderne |
| Governing body: | U.S. Postal Service |
| MPS: | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
| NRHP Reference#: | 88002358[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | May 11, 1989 |
The US Post Office-Canal Street Station, originally known as Station "B," is a historic post office building located in Manhattan, New York, United States. It was built in 1937, and designed by consulting architect Alan Balch Mills for the Office of the Supervising Architect. The building is a two story, symmetrically massed building clad with buff terra cotta panels with a black terra cotta base in the Moderne style. It features a fluted terra cotta frieze with a tarnished silver finish. The interior features a relief executed in 1938 by artist Wheeler Williams and titled "Indian Bowman."[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]