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United States Post Office (Lenox Hill Station)

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Kebbon, unlike some other consulting architects, appears to have been given complete freedom in designing the Lenox Hill post office, which serves some of Manhattan's wealthiest neighborhoods. His design, which has been called the finest
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The post office is located on the north side of the street, midway between the two avenues. The neighboring buildings are large apartment houses, modern on either side of the post office and older across the street.
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Eric Kebbon, still employed in private practice at the time, was retained to design five Manhattan post offices. Prior to working for the Treasury Department he had designed the AT&T building at
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divide the teller windows, which retain their original bronze grilles. Three of the original customer tables remain. They are bronze with glass tops and Greek-inspired decorated bases.
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the authority to hire outside consulting architects to design buildings, to provide work for unemployed architects. In New York, many of those architects built post offices in the
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Balustraded granite steps on either side of the projecting pavilion lead to the main entrances. They have bronze doors topped by blind fanlights with eagles carved in
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Above them, the third floor windows are four-over-eight sash with simple stone surrounds. The central window in the pavilion has a shouldered surround with
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On the main block, the south-facing first floor windows are all tripartite round-arched windows with 8-over-12 double-hung wooden
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Lenox Hill was one of 12 post offices built in mid-1930s Manhattan as part of federal relief efforts in the face of the ongoing
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at the base. Below it a flagpole projects from a limestone panel between it and the second-story window below.
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in the center and triangular in the middle. On the main block and the wing they have projecting stone lintels.
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There are two sections to the building. Both are three stories in height, with the first story faced in
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post office in the state, is similar to his later Planetarium post office across town on the
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan from 59th to 110th Streets
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in front on the main block. On the pavilion they are additionally topped with stone
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Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan
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depicting an eagle and shield. The shallow pitched roof is sheathed in metal.
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The second floor windows are 12-over-12 double-hung sash with limestone
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The pavilion's gable is trimmed in limestone. At its bottom is a plain
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New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
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around the entire room, square plaster cornice and shallow squared
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plaster ceiling. Doors have limestone surrounds with marble
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in 1989, along with many other post offices in the state.
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Holy Trinity Church, St. Christopher House and Parsonage
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main section has a three-bay central projecting front-
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
A three-story brick building with grayish-brown stone trim and an American flag hung from the front on a city street. The middle of the front, with a pointy top and round-topped windows, sticks out slightly. "UNITED STATES POST OFFICE" is carved into the stone near the top, and "Lenox Hill Station New York N.Y." near the street. There is a pale blue fire escape on the left.
United States Post Office (Lenox Hill Station) is located in New York City
United States Post Office (Lenox Hill Station) is located in New York
United States Post Office (Lenox Hill Station) is located in the United States
East 70th Street
Manhattan
New York City
40°46′4″N 73°57′36″W / 40.76778°N 73.96000°W / 40.76778; -73.96000
Colonial Revival
MPS
US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
88002363
East 70th Street
Second
Third
Lenox Hill
Upper East Side
Manhattan
New York City
Eric Kebbon
Colonial Revival style
New York State
National Register of Historic Places
rusticated
limestone
granite
foundation
Flemish bond
bay

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