Inwood Post Office

90 Vermilyea Avenue | also 86 Vermilyea Avenue | Inwood | built 1936

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

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1937
The Treasury Department completes the Inwood Station post office
Built between 1935 and 1937, the one-story brick post office at Vermilyea Avenue and 204th Street was designed by consulting architect Carroll H. Pratt for the Treasury Department's Office of the Supervising Architect. The Colonial Revival building has a projecting three-bay entrance pavilion and a limestone cornice under a brick parapet. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 1989.
Source: Wikipedia
1989
May 11
The Inwood post office joins the National Register of Historic Places
On May 11, 1989, the Inwood Station post office at 90 Vermilyea Avenue is added to the National Register of Historic Places, followed a month later by the New York State Register. The one-story Colonial Revival building, designed by Treasury Department consulting architect Carroll H. Pratt, keeps its limestone-trimmed brick facade and projecting entrance pavilion largely unchanged.
Source: Wikipedia

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