United States Post Office (Inwood Station)

United States Post Office
Inwood Station
(2014)
Location 90 Vermilyea Avenue
Inwood, Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates: 40°51′58″N 73°55′26″W / 40.86611°N 73.92389°W / 40.86611; -73.92389
Built 1935-37
Architect Carroll H. Pratt
Architectural style Colonial Revival
MPS US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP Reference # 88002361[1]
Added to NRHP May 11, 1989

The United States Post Office Inwood Station is a historic post office building located at 90 Vermilyea Avenue at the corner of West 204th Street in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built between 1935 and 1937, and designed by consulting architect Carroll H. Pratt (1874-1958) for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury. It is a one-story brick building in the Colonial Revival style, with a three-bay-wide projecting entrance pavilion. It features a limestone cornice and frieze topped by a brick parapet.[2]

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

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Larry E. Gobrecht (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Inwood Station Post Office". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-10-01. See also: "Accompanying five photos".

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