{"nrhp_refnum":"88002358","name":"US Post Office-Canal Street Station","other_names":["Canal Street Station"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"350 Canal St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.73838226000004,"lon":-74.00356590899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story post office at 350 Canal Street, on the southwest corner of Church Street in lower Manhattan, New York City. It was designed and built between 1937 and 1939 and is clad in terra-cotta panels.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an outstanding and unusual example of public architecture in New York State, one of the few Art Moderne post offices built there at a time when Colonial-inspired designs dominated. Its terra-cotta cladding, chamfered corner entrance and lack of applied ornament set it apart. It also contains a relief sculpture by Wheeler Williams commissioned by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.","narrative":"Canal Street Station is a two-story post office at 350 Canal Street, on the corner of Church Street in lower Manhattan. Built between 1937 and 1939, it was one of fourteen postal facilities erected in Manhattan in the 1930s as part of federal Depression-era works projects. Alan Balch Mills designed it in the Art Moderne style, a striking contrast to the Colonial Revival buildings that dominated New York post office design at the time. Buff terra-cotta panels cover the exterior, with a black terra-cotta base, steel-sash windows set in angled bays, and almost no applied ornament. The entrance sits within a chamfered corner, giving the building a distinctive presence on a busy intersection. Inside, the lobby has banded terra-cotta walls, terrazzo floors and an original screenline. A relief panel titled Indian Bowman, carved by Wheeler Williams in 1938, was commissioned by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts. The building keeps a high degree of integrity inside and out.","period_of_significance":"1937-9","architect_builder":"Alan Balch Mills","architectural_style":"Art Moderne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is listed as good, and the building retains a very high degree of integrity on both the exterior and interior. It is described as occupied and in use as a post office.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.005025-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002358.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002358/a25c19b775-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002358/a25c19b775-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canal_St_PO_jeh.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canal_St_PO_jeh.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79001604","name":"Greenwich Village Historic District (Additional Documentation)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/greenwich-village-historic-district-additional-documentation-79001604/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313817","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Canal_Street_Station)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891143"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/us-post-office-canal-street-station-88002358/"}