United States Post Office (Long Beach, New York)
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US Post Office-Long Beach is a historic post office building located at Long Beach in Nassau County, New York, United States. It was built in 1936 and designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under the direction of Louis A. Simon. It is a one-story, symmetrically massed building faced with red brick in the Colonial Revival style. It features a central five bay wide section with a gable roof, flanked by single bay end pavilions with gable roofs perpendicular to the central section. The lobby features a Treasury Section of Fine Arts mural by Jon Corbino titled The Pleasures of the Bathing Beach (1939).[2][3]
US Post Office-Long Beach | |
 Long Beach Post Office, April 2009 | |
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| Location | 101 East Park Avenue Long Beach, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°35′19″N 73°39′39″W / 40.58861°N 73.66083°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1936 |
| Architect | Simon, Louis A.; Corbino, Jon |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| MPS | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 88002347[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 11, 1989 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Post Office Mural, Long Beach, NY". Living New Deal. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
- ^ "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 (December 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Long Beach Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-03-01. and Accompanying seven photographs
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