A premier Colonial Revival post office in Manhattan

The United States Post Office–Lenox Hill Station is located at 217 East 70th Street in Manhattan. Built in 1935, the brick building was designed by Eric Kebbon in the Colonial Revival style. It is considered one of the finest post offices in that style in New York State and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

The building was constructed as part of federal relief efforts during the Great Depression. The Public Buildings Act of 1930 allowed the Treasury Department's Supervising Architect to hire outside consulting architects to provide work for unemployed architects. Eric Kebbon, who had designed the AT&T building at Broadway and Fulton Street prior to his work for the Treasury Department, was retained to design five Manhattan post offices. Later, he would design over a hundred school buildings for the city's school system.

Kebbon was given complete freedom in designing the Lenox Hill post office. The structure features a granite foundation with the first story faced in rusticated limestone. The upper stories feature brick laid in Flemish bond with limestone trim. The building consists of a five-bay main section and a three-bay wing with a segmental-arched garage. Balustraded granite steps lead to bronze doors topped by blind fanlights featuring eagles carved in bas-relief.

Inside, the lobby features a terrazzo floor in gray, gold, and black marble. The room is decorated with applied Doric order in honey-colored marble, a square plaster cornice, and a shallow squared coffered plaster ceiling. The teller windows retain their original bronze grilles, and three original customer tables remain, made of bronze with glass tops and Greek-inspired decorated bases. The building continues to serve some of Manhattan's wealthiest neighborhoods today.

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