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US Post Office-Great Neck
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The post office as seen from Welwyn Road.
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Location	1 Welwyn Rd., Great Neck Plaza, New York
Coordinates	40°47′14″N 73°43′23″W / 40.78722°N 73.72306°W / 40.78722; -73.72306
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
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 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.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It was designated as a local historical landmark on December 1, 2004.

References

Media related to United States Post Office (Great Neck, New York) at Wikimedia Commons

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. "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

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