Kensington Station Post Office – Brooklyn NY

City:
Brooklyn, New York City, NY

Site Type:
Federal Facilities, Post Offices

New Deal Agencies:
Federal & Military Operations, Treasury Department

Started:
1935

Designers:
Lorimer Rich, Louis A. Simon

Description

Brooklyn, New York’s Kensington Station post office “is a historic post office building … was built in 1935, and designed by consulting architect Lorimer Rich for the Office of the Supervising Architect. The building is a two-story, six-bay-wide brick building in the Colonial Revival style. For much of its history it was painted white. It features a projecting pedimented wooden portico supported on Doric order piers.” (Wikipedia)

The post office became listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Source notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_%28Kensington,_Brooklyn%29 Building cornerstone

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 11, 2013.

Location Info


421 McDonald Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11218
Kings County

Coordinates: 40.643559, -73.97958

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