United States Post Office (Great Neck, New York)
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 1939-40 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.
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United States Post Office (Great Neck, New York)
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 1939-40 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.
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US Post Office-Great Neck is a ...... landmark on December 1, 2004.
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Foster, William Dewey; Cecere, Gaetano
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less than one acre
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The post office as seen from Welwyn Road.
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US Post Office-Great Neck is a ...... ted in 1940 by Gaetano Cecere.
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United States Post Office (Great Neck, New York)
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US Post Office-Great Neck
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