Old Chelsea Post Office

217 West 18th Street | also 229 West 18th Street | Chelsea | built 1936

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1935
Eric Kebbon designs a Colonial Revival post office for Chelsea
Consulting architect Eric Kebbon designed this seven-bay, two-story brick post office for the Office of the Supervising Architect, and it was built in 1935. It is trimmed in limestone in the Colonial Revival style. The main entrance has Doric pilasters, a ten-light transom and a blind stone fanlight with carved eagles.
Source: Wikipedia
1938
Artist Paul Fiene makes two woodland relief panels for the lobby
In 1938 Paul Fiene executed two cast-stone bas-relief panels of woodland animals, titled Deer and Bear, for the post office interior. The building was originally known as Station O.
Source: Wikipedia
1989
May 11
The Old Chelsea post office is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 1989. It was added to the New York State Register of Historic Places the same day.
Source: Wikipedia

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