Canal Street Station Post Office

350 Canal Street | Tribeca | built 1938

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1937

    Alan Balch Mills designs a Moderne post office clad in buff terra cotta for the Treasury Department

    The Canal Street Station, first called Station B, was built in 1937 at the corner of Canal and Church Streets, designed by consulting architect Alan Balch Mills for the Treasury Department's Office of the Supervising Architect. Its two stories are clad in buff terra cotta panels over a black terra cotta base, with a fluted frieze finished in tarnished silver. The AIA Guide to New York City admired the inset bay windows along Church Street.

    “…designed by consulting architect Alan Balch Mills for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1938

    Sculptor Wheeler Williams completes the relief Indian Bowman for the post office interior

    In 1938 Wheeler Williams made a relief titled Indian Bowman for the Canal Street Station post office. Williams, who died in 1972, studied sculpture in Chicago, earned a Yale degree in 1919 and a Harvard master's in architecture in 1922, and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He later served as longtime president of the National Sculpture Society.

    “1938 'Indian Bowman,' United States Post Office-Canal Street Station, New York City…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1989

    The Canal Street Station post office joins the National Register of Historic Places

    In 1989 the post office at 350 Canal Street joined the National Register of Historic Places. The listing covers a building put up in 1937 as the Treasury Department's Station B, with Moderne terra-cotta facades and a 1938 interior relief by Wheeler Williams.

    “The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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