Forest Hills Post Office
106-28 Queens Boulevard | Forest Hills | built 1930
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1937
Lorimer Rich designs an International style post office clad in terra cotta
The Forest Hills Station post office was built in 1937 to a design by Lorimer Rich, working as a consultant to the federal Office of the Supervising Architect. The one-story, flat-roofed International style building has reddish brown terra cotta walls over a granite base, with exterior relief sculptures in terra cotta by the artist Sten Jacobsson.
“It was built in 1937, and was designed by architect Lorimer Rich as a consultant to the Office of the Supervising Architect.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1988
The Forest Hills post office joins the National Register of Historic Places
In 1988 the post office on the eastbound service road of Queens Boulevard, once called Hoffman Boulevard, at the southwest corner of 70th Avenue facing MacDonald Park, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
“It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Source: Wikipedia
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