Flushing Post Office

41-65 Main Street | also 41-01 Main Street | Willets Point | built 1934

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.

1934
Dwight James Baum's Colonial Revival post office is completed on Main Street in Flushing
Flushing's main post office went up between 1932 and 1934, designed by Dwight James Baum, with William W. Knowles, both serving as consulting architects for the federal Office of the Supervising Architect. The symmetrical two-story building has a steel frame faced in oversize handmade red brick and trimmed in marble. Its front centers on an entrance portico of six Ionic columns holding up a full pedimented entablature.
“…designed and built between 1932 and 1934 by architect Dwight James Baum and William W. Knowles as consulting architects to the Office of the Supervising Architect…”
Source: Wikipedia
1988
Flushing's main post office is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The Flushing main post office was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Along with its red-brick Colonial Revival exterior, the building keeps an interior mural that the painter Vincent Aderente executed in 1933 and 1934.
“The interior features a mural executed in 1933-34 by Vincent Aderente. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Source: Wikipedia

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