US Post Office-Great Neck (also known as the Great Neck Post Office) is a historic post office building located within the Incorporated Village of Great Neck Plaza in the Town of North Hempstead, in Nassau County, New York, United States.
Description The Great Neck Post Office was built in 1939 and designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster (1890-1958) for the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a one-story, pentagonal shaped skeletal frame building clad with plucked textured buff limestone in the Classical Revival style. It features a semicircular entrance portico supported by four square columns. Above the entrance is a relief sculpture of an eagle with 13 stars sculpted in 1940 by Gaetano Cecere. ()
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It was designated as a local historical landmark on December 1, 2004.
See also
United States Post Office (Port Washington, New York) United States Post Office (Mineola, New York)
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