Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 88002526 Phone +1 516-482-5013 | Built 1939 Opened 1939 Added to NRHP 11 May 1989 | |
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Location 1 Welwyn Rd., Great Neck Plaza, New York MPS US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR Address 1 Welwyn Rd, Great Neck, NY 11021, USA Hours Open today · 9AM–12PMSaturday9AM–12PMSundayClosedMonday9AM–5PMTuesday9AM–5PMWednesday9AM–5PMThursday9AM–5PMFriday9AM–5PMSuggest an edit Architectural styles Neoclassical architecture, Colonial Revival architecture Similar US Post Office‑Jackson Heights S, US Post Office‑Long Beach, US Post Office‑Jamaica Main, US Post Office‑Knickerbocker Station, US Post Office‑Lenox Hill Station | ||
US Post Office-Great Neck is a historic post office building located at Great Neck Plaza in the town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States. It was built in 1939-40 and designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster (1890-1958) for the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a one story, pentagonal shaped skeletal frame building clad with plucked textured buff limestone in the Classical Revival style. It features a semicircular entrance portico supported by four square columns. Above the entrance is a relief sculpture of an eagle with 13 stars sculpted in 1940 by Gaetano Cecere.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It was designated as a local historical landmark on December 1, 2004.