Metropolitan Station Post Office
Project type: Federal Facilities, Post Offices
Started: 1935
Designers: Lorimer Rich
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Description
Brooklyn, New York’s Metropolitan Station post office (originally known as Station A) was constructed with Treasury Department funds in 1935-6. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, the building is “a two-story, flat roofed brick building with a three bay wide central pavilion flanked by three bay wide wings in the Colonial Revival style.”
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Metropolitan Station cornerstone
Source notes
U.S. Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943. National Register of Historic Places.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_%28Williamsburg,_Brooklyn%29
Post office cornerstone
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 2, 2017.
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