Flatbush Station post office
2273 Church Avenue | also 2271 Church Avenue | Flatbush | built 1935
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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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- 1935
Depression-era program puts up new post offices across New York City, including Flatbush's
During the Great Depression the federal government built public buildings partly to put unemployed men to work, and New York City still needed post offices for its growing neighborhoods. Lorimer Rich designed at least seven of the city's post office branches in this program, and the Flatbush branch was one of them. Brownstoner notes that Rich was among the few consulting architects given almost total design freedom.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 1936
Lorimer Rich designs a Colonial Revival post office for Church Avenue
The Flatbush Station was built in 1935-36 for the Treasury Department's Office of the Supervising Architect. Lorimer Rich, a consulting architect who had spent eight years at McKim, Mead & White, designed it as a symmetrical brick building with a center entrance and a steep roof. Inside, the lobby had terrazzo floors and a marble dado, with the mail sorting room at the back and offices upstairs.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 1988
The Flatbush post office is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The two-story red brick post office at 2273 Church Avenue, between Flatbush and Bedford Avenues, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is not a New York City landmark. Wikipedia calls it a Colonial Revival design with a symmetrical front, a gable roof and a big one-story wing at the back.
“It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Source: Wikipedia
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