United States Post Office (Flushing, Queens)

US Post Office-Flushing Main

Flushing Main Post Office, April 2009
Location 4165 Main St.,[1]
Flushing, Queens
Coordinates 40°45′23″N 73°49′42″W / 40.7564°N 73.8283°W / 40.7564; -73.8283Coordinates: 40°45′23″N 73°49′42″W / 40.7564°N 73.8283°W / 40.7564; -73.8283
Area less than one acre
Built 1932
Architect Dwight James Baum, William W. Knowles
Architectural style Colonial Revival
MPS US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP Reference # 88002507[2]
Added to NRHP November 17, 1988

US Post Office-Flushing Main is a historic post office building located at Flushing in Queens County, New York, United States. It was designed and built between 1932 and 1934 by architect Dwight James Baum and William W. Knowles as consulting architects to the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a symmetrically massed, two story steel frame building clad in oversize handmade red brick with marble trim in the Colonial Revival style. Its main facade features an entrance portico consisting of six Ionic columns that support a full pedimented entabulature. The interior features a mural executed in 1933-34 by Vincent Aderente.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Address based on USPS website. Accessed April 1, 2016.
  2. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. ↑ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2016-04-01. Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Flushing Main Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-01. and Accompanying three photographs


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