{"nrhp_refnum":"88002361","name":"US Post Office-Inwood Station","other_names":["Inwood Station Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"90 Vermilyea Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.866122811000025,"lon":-73.92357469099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick post office at 90 Vermilyea Avenue in the Inwood section of Manhattan, designed in 1934 and built in 1935-37. It is the northernmost post office on Manhattan Island.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative example of federal architecture produced by Great Depression public works programs. It is a refined Colonial Revival design by consulting architect Carroll H. Pratt for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. It is unusual among New York City postal stations for being one story, a form common for post offices elsewhere in the state.","narrative":"Inwood Station is a one-story brick post office at 90 Vermilyea Avenue, on the southwest corner of West 204th Street at the northern end of Manhattan. Designed in 1934 and built in 1935-37 by Globe Building Corporation, it was one of twelve new postal stations erected in Manhattan in the mid-1930s as part of federal work projects responding to Depression-era unemployment. The architect was Carroll H. Pratt, a Brooklyn-based consultant hired temporarily by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. His Colonial Revival design features a projecting three-bay entrance pavilion, compound round arches, limestone trim, and multi-paned wood windows. Its single story is unusual for New York City stations but typical of post offices elsewhere in the state. The exterior remains largely intact, while the interior has been altered, though some terrazzo flooring, marble wainscot, and plaster detail survive. The building is valued as a representative example of 1930s federal post office design.","period_of_significance":"1935-7","architect_builder":"Carroll H. Pratt, consulting architect; built by Globe Building Corporation","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in good condition. The exterior retains its integrity, while the interior has been considerably altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.79473-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002361.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002361/27cee6099e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002361/27cee6099e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USPO_Inwood_Station.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USPO_Inwood_Station.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313835","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office%E2%80%93Inwood_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891145"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/us-post-office-inwood-station-88002361/"}