United States Post Office (Great Neck, New York)

US Post Office-Great Neck
Location 1 Welwyn Rd., Great Neck Plaza, New York
Coordinates 40°47′14″N 73°43′23″W / 40.78722°N 73.72306°WCoordinates: 40°47′14″N 73°43′23″W / 40.78722°N 73.72306°W
Area less than one acre
Built 1939
Architect Foster, William Dewey; Cecere, Gaetano
Architectural style Classical Revival
Governing body U.S. Postal Service
MPS US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP Reference # 88002526[1]
Added to NRHP May 11, 1989

US Post Office-Great Neck is a historic post office building located at Great Neck Plaza in the town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States. It was built in 1939-40 and designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster (1890-1958) for the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a one story, pentagonal shaped skeletal frame building clad with plucked textured buff limestone in the Classical Revival style. It features a semicircular entrance portico supported by four square columns. Above the entrance is a relief sculpture of an eagle with 13 stars sculpted in 1940 by Gaetano Cecere.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

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