- 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 cornerstoneSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 11, 2013.
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