US Post Office-Far Rockaway is a historic

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...

building located at

Far Rockaway Far Rockaway is a neighborhood on the eastern part of the Rockaway peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It is the easternmost section of the Rockaways. The neighborhood extends from Beach 32nd Street east to the Nassau County li ...

in Queens County,

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. It was built in 1935, and is one of six post offices in New York State designed by architect

Eric Kebbon Harold Erickson Kebbon Sr. (6 June 1890 – 18 April 1964) was an American architect who designed over 100 schools as well as several post offices, courthouses, housing developments and private residences. Eric Kebbon was born in Brooklyn, New Yo ...

as a consultant to the

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. It is a two-story brick building with limestone trim and a low granite base 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 arch ...

style. Its main facade features a centrally placed polygonal shaped frontispiece with a rounded dome inspired by Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. It also has a grand entrance vestibule. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying three photographs''
/ref> It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1988.

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Government buildings completed in 1935 Colonial Revival architecture in New York City Government buildings in Queens, New York Rockaway, Queens National Register of Historic Places in Queens, New York {{QueensNY-struct-stub