US Post Office-Forest Hills Station is a historic
post office
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building located at
Forest Hills in
Queens County,
New York
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. It was built in 1937, and was designed by architect
Lorimer Rich
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as a consultant to the
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. It is a one-story flat roofed building clad with reddish brown
terra cotta
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above a base of granite in the
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style. It features exterior terra cotta relief sculptures by artist
Sten Jacobsson.
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The post office is located on the eastbound frontage road of Queens Boulevard (the former Hoffman Boulevard) on the southwest corner of 70th Avenue across from MacDonald Park. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 1988.
References
Forest Hills
Government buildings completed in 1937
International style architecture in New York City
Government buildings in Queens, New York
Forest Hills, Queens
National Register of Historic Places in Queens, New York
1937 establishments in New York City
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