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United States Post Office (Flushing, Queens)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
88002507

Phone
  
+1 718-321-6893

Built
  
1932

Opened
  
1934

Added to NRHP
  
17 November 1988

United States Post Office (Flushing, Queens)

Location
  
4165 Main St., Flushing, Queens

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

Address
  
4165 Main St #1, Flushing, NY 11355, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 9AM–12PMSaturday9AM–12PMSundayClosedMonday8:30–11AM, 12–4PMTuesday8:30–11AM, 12–4PMWednesday8:30–11AM, 12–4PMThursday8:30–11AM, 12–4PMFriday8:30–11AM, 12–4PMSuggest an edit

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

Similar
  
US Post Office‑Jamaica Main, US Post Office‑Far Rockaway, US Post Office‑Forest Hills Stati, US Post Office‑Jackson Heights S, US Post Office‑Long Island City

US Post Office-Flushing Main is a historic post office building located at Flushing in Queens County, New York, United States. It was 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. It is a symmetrically massed, two story steel frame building clad in oversize handmade red brick with marble trim in the Colonial Revival style. Its main facade features an entrance portico consisting of six Ionic columns that support a full pedimented entabulature. The interior features a mural executed in 1933-34 by Vincent Aderente.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

References

United States Post Office (Flushing, Queens) Wikipedia