Far Rockaway Post Office

18-36 Mott Avenue | also 18-22 Mott Avenue | Far Rockaway | built 1962

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1935
Eric Kebbon designs a Colonial Revival post office with a dome inspired by Monticello
Built in 1935, the Far Rockaway post office is one of six in New York State designed by Eric Kebbon while he consulted for the Office of the Supervising Architect. The Colonial Revival building is two stories of brick, trimmed in limestone and set on a low granite base. Its front centers on a many-sided projecting bay topped by a rounded dome modeled on Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
Source: Wikipedia
1988
The Far Rockaway post office is added to the National Register of Historic Places
In 1988 the 1935 Colonial Revival post office was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Behind its domed front, the building also has a grand entrance vestibule.
“It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Source: Wikipedia

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