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United States Post Office (Canal Street Station)

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Built
  
1937

Opened
  
1937

Phone
  
+1 800-275-8777

Added to NRHP
  
11 May 1989

NRHP Reference #
  
88002358

Area
  
7,700 m²

Architectural style
  
Streamline Moderne

United States Post Office (Canal Street Station)

Location
  
350 Canal Street, Tribeca, Manhattan, New York City

MPS
  
US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR

Address
  
350 Canal St #2A, New York, NY 10013, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 9AM–4PMSaturday9AM–4PMSundayClosedMonday9AM–5:30PMTuesday9AM–5:30PMWednesday9AM–5:30PMThursday9AM–5:30PMFriday9AM–5:30PMSuggest an edit

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The United States Post Office Canal Street Station, originally known as "Station B", is a historic post office building located at 350 Canal Street at the corner of Church Street in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1937, and designed by consulting architect Alan Balch Mills for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury.

The building is a two story and symmetrically massed, clad with buff terra cotta panels with a black terra cotta base in the Moderne style. It features a fluted terra cotta frieze with a tarnished silver finish. According to the AIA Guide to New York City, "[t]he articularted inset bay windows on Church Streets are a wonderful mannerism ... [that] give[s] the allusion of scanning the streets north and south, and add plasticity to the building." The interior features a relief executed in 1938 by artist Wheeler Williams and titled "Indian Bowman."

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

References

United States Post Office (Canal Street Station) Wikipedia