Kensington Post Office

419 Mcdonald Avenue | also 405 Mcdonald Avenue | Kensington | built 1920

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

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1935
Lorimer Rich designs a Colonial Revival post office for Kensington
The Kensington post office was built in 1935 and designed by Lorimer Rich, a consulting architect working for the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a two-story brick building six bays wide in the Colonial Revival style, with a projecting wooden portico on Doric piers topped by a pediment. For much of its history the building was painted white.
“It was built in 1935, and designed by consulting architect Lorimer Rich for the Office of the Supervising Architect.”
Source: Wikipedia
1988
The Kensington post office is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
In 1988 the post office in Kensington, a brick Colonial Revival building completed in 1935, was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The listing is titled US Post Office-Kensington.
“It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Source: Wikipedia

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