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United_States_Post_Office_(Long_Island_City,_Queens) Latitude and Longitude:
40°44′44″N 73°56′55″W / 40.74556°N 73.94861°W / 40.74556; -73.94861
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US Post Office-Long Island City
U.S. Post Office, Long Island City, April 2008
United States Post Office (Long Island City, Queens) is located in New York City
United States Post Office (Long Island City, Queens)
United States Post Office (Long Island City, Queens) is located in New York
United States Post Office (Long Island City, Queens)
United States Post Office (Long Island City, Queens) is located in the United States
United States Post Office (Long Island City, Queens)
Location4602 21st St., [2]
Long Island City, Queens
Coordinates 40°44′44″N 73°56′55″W / 40.74556°N 73.94861°W / 40.74556; -73.94861
Arealess than one acre
Built1928
ArchitectJames A. Wetmore, US Treasury Department
Architectural styleColonial Revival
MPS US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP reference  No. 88002348 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 11, 1989

The Long Island City Post Office is a historic post office building located at Long Island City in Queens County, New York, United States. It was built in 1928, and is one of a number of post offices in New York designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under director James A. Wetmore. The building is a two-story, symmetrically massed brick building with limestone trim in the Colonial Revival style. It features a frontispiece with four semi- engaged limestone Ionic order columns that support a pedimented entablature. [3]

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

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Address based on USPS website. Accessed April 1, 2016.
  3. ^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2016-04-01. Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Long Island City Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-01. and Accompanying five photographs


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