United States Post Office (Great Neck, New York)
US Post Office-Great Neck | |
 The post office as seen from Welwyn Road. | |
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| Location | 1 Welwyn Rd., Great Neck Plaza, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°47′14″N 73°43′23″W / 40.78722°N 73.72306°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1939 |
| Architect | Foster, William Dewey; Cecere, Gaetano |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| MPS | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 88002526[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 11, 1989 |
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.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It was designated as a local historical landmark on December 1, 2004.[1]
References
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2016-03-01. Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (November 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Great Neck Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-03-01. and Accompanying six photographs
