{"nrhp_refnum":"88002335","name":"US Post Office-Jamaica Main","other_names":["Jamaica Main Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"88-40 164th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Queens","state":"NY","lat":40.76123813100003,"lon":-73.80181861299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Colonial Revival post office at 88-40 164th Street in the Jamaica section of Queens, New York City, built 1932-34 of red brick with a marble Ionic portico. It was designed by Cross & Cross and built by the Rego Building Corporation.","why_significant":"It is architecturally significant as one of a small number of important New York State post offices of the 1930s designed by a prestigious private firm rather than the Treasury's Supervising Architect. It is one of two post offices in New York City by Cross & Cross and the largest post office in Queens. It retains much of its original form and serves as a symbol of the federal presence in Queens.","narrative":"Jamaica's main post office, at 88-40 164th Street in Queens, is a two-story Colonial Revival building completed in 1932-34. Its Old Virginia red brick walls, laid in Flemish bond, rise from a gray granite base and are trimmed in white marble. A four-column Ionic portico with a carved eagle pediment marks the entrance, and arched first-floor windows hold Gothic-style sash. Inside, the lobby is clad in golden St. Genevieve marble, with terrazzo floors and original bronze eagle lamps. The building was designed by Cross & Cross, a New York firm better known for houses, clubs and apartment buildings, and built by the Rego Building Corporation. It was one of the first post offices designed by a consulting architect under a 1930 amendment meant to ease architects' unemployment during the Depression. It is the largest post office in Queens County, built with $800,000 in federal funds after a five-year local effort, and it keeps most of its original form.","period_of_significance":"1932-34","architect_builder":"Cross and Cross (architects); Rego Building Corporation (builder)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in government use as the Jamaica Main Post Office; the exterior retains almost complete integrity and the interior retains a high degree of integrity despite recent alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.724402-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002335.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002335/7f08f003ea-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002335/7f08f003ea-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USPO_Jamaica,_Queens;_Close-Up.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">DanTD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USPO_Jamaica,_Queens;_Close-Up.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314462","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Jamaica,_Queens)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890979"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/queens/us-post-office-jamaica-main-88002335/"}