Long Island City Post Office

46-02 21st Street | Long Island City | built 1931

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

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1928
Federal architects under James A. Wetmore design a Colonial Revival post office for Long Island City
The Long Island City Post Office went up in 1928, one of several New York post offices produced by the Office of the Supervising Architect while James A. Wetmore led it. The two-story brick building is laid out symmetrically and trimmed in limestone. Its frontispiece has four semi-engaged Ionic columns of limestone holding up a pedimented entablature.
“It was built in 1928, and is one of a number of post offices in New York designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under director James A. Wetmore.”
Source: Wikipedia
1989
The Long Island City Post Office joins the National Register of Historic Places
In 1989 the Long Island City Post Office was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The two-story brick and limestone building had been completed in 1928 to a Colonial Revival design from the Office of the Supervising Architect.
“It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”
Source: Wikipedia

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