Knickerbocker Station Post Office
128 East Broadway | Chinatown | built 1900
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- 1934
Architect William Dewey Foster is hired as a New Deal consultant and designs Knickerbocker Station
William Dewey Foster (1890-1958), an MIT-trained architect, was one of 21 consulting architects hired by the federal Office of the Supervising Architect in 1934 to handle the surge of New Deal projects. Over eight years he designed several New York-area post offices, including Knickerbocker Station in 1935-37, and later federal offices in Washington.
“In 1934 he, along with 20 other architects, were hired on a consultatory basis by the Office of the Supervising Architect…”
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- 1937
Knickerbocker Station is designed as a Colonial Revival post office with a mansard roof and a pedimented entrance
Built between 1935 and 1937 for the Treasury Department's Office of the Supervising Architect, the post office was originally called Station B. Its two- to three-story brick walls, granite trim and mansard roof follow the Colonial Revival style. The main entrance is a three-bay pavilion capped by a pediment.
“…a two to three story, brick building with a mansard roof and granite trim in the Colonial Revival style.”
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- 1937
The Knickerbocker Station post office is completed on East Broadway
The Knickerbocker Station post office is built between 1935 and 1937, originally under the name Station B. William Dewey Foster designs it as consulting architect for the Treasury Department's Office of the Supervising Architect. The brick building rises two to three stories in the Colonial Revival style, with a mansard roof, granite trim and a pedimented entrance pavilion three bays wide.
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- 1989
The Knickerbocker Station post office is listed on the National Register
The Knickerbocker Station post office on East Broadway is added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is one of the buildings in a multiple-property listing of United States post offices in New York State built between 1858 and 1943.
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