US Post Office-Freeport is a historic
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...
building located at
Freeport in the town of
Hempstead,
Nassau County, New York
Nassau County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of New York. At the 2020 U.S. census, Nassau County's population is 1,395,774. The county seat is Mineola and the largest town is Hempstead.
Nassau County is situated on western Long Island ...
,
United States
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. It was built in 1932 and designed by consulting architects
Tachau and Vought for the
Office of the Supervising Architect The Office of the Supervising Architect was an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings from 1852 to 1939.
The office handled some of the most important architectural commissions of the nineteenth ...
. It is a two-story, symmetrically massed brick building trimmed in
limestone
Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...
in the
Colonial Revival
The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture.
The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...
style. It features a three bay wide entrance pavilion with a gable roof. The lobby features two murals by
William Gropper
William Gropper (December 3, 1897January 3, 1977) was a U.S. cartoonist, painter, lithographer, and muralist. A committed radical, Gropper is best known for the political work which he contributed to such left wing publications as '' The Rev ...
installed in 1938 and titled "Air Mail" and "Suburban Post in Winter."
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1989.
Freeport, NY post office interior 01.jpg, Interior, 2012
File:Gropper-Suburban-Post-in-Winter-1938.jpg, Interior detail: "Suburban Post in Winter", 1938 mural by William Gropper
William Gropper (December 3, 1897January 3, 1977) was a U.S. cartoonist, painter, lithographer, and muralist. A committed radical, Gropper is best known for the political work which he contributed to such left wing publications as '' The Rev ...
File:Freeport, NY post office interior 04A.jpg, Interior detail: "Air Mail", 1938 mural by William Gropper
References
External links
Freeport
Government buildings completed in 1932
Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state)
Freeport, New York
Buildings and structures in Nassau County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Hempstead (town), New York
Treasury Relief Art Project
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