US Post Office-Flushing Main is a historic post office

Post office

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 building located at Flushing

Flushing, Queens

Flushing, founded in 1645, is a neighborhood in the north central part of the City of New York borough of Queens, east of Manhattan.Flushing was one of the first Dutch settlements on Long Island. Today, it is one of the largest and most diverse neighborhoods in New York City...

 in Queens County

Queens

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, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, United States

United States

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. It was designed and built between 1932 and 1934 by architect Dwight James Baum

Dwight James Baum

Dwight James Baum was an American architect most active in New York and in Sarasota, Florida.-Biography:Baum was born in Newville, New York and moved to Syracuse as a young man, eventually graduating from Syracuse University in 1909 with an architecture degree...

 and William W. Knowles as consulting architects to the Office of the Supervising Architect

Office of the Supervising Architect

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. It is a symmetrically massed, two story steel frame building clad in oversize handmade red brick with marble trim in the Colonial Revival

Colonial Revival architecture

The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own...

 style. Its main facade features an entrance portico

Portico

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 consisting of six Ionic

Ionic order

The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian...

 columns that support a full pedimented entabulature. The interior features a mural executed in 1933-34 by Vincent Aderente

Vincent Aderente

Vincent Aderente was an American muralist.He studied at the Art Students League, and worked on the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Ballroom.He was an assistant to Edwin Blashfield.His work is at St...

.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1988.