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United States Post Office (Jamaica, Queens)

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Area
  
1.2 acres (0.49 ha)

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival

Built
  
1932

United States Post Office (Jamaica, Queens)

Location
  
8840 164th St., Jamaica, Queens

Architect
  
Cross & Cross; U.S. Treasury Department

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

US Post Office-Jamaica Main is a historic post office building located at the northwest corner of 164th Street and 89th Avenue in Jamaica in Queens County, New York, United States. It serves the 11432 ZIP Code. It was built in 1932-1934, and is one of two post offices in New York City designed by the architects Cross & Cross as a consultant to the Office of the Supervising Architect. The building is a two story brick building on a light gray granite base with marble trim in the Colonial Revival style. It features a handsome marble portico supported by four Ionic order columns.

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

References

United States Post Office (Jamaica, Queens) Wikipedia