{"nrhp_refnum":"88002363","name":"US Post Office-Lenox Hill Station","other_names":["Lenox Hill Station Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"221 E. 70th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.76808717600005,"lon":-73.96011170199995,"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 three-story Colonial Revival post office station at 221 East 70th Street, between Second and Third Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It was designed and built in 1935 and was originally known as Station Y.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an outstanding example of a Colonial Revival public building and one of the finest Colonial Revival post offices in New York State. It is an important work of architect Eric Kebbon and was built under 1930s public works programs to relieve Depression-era unemployment. Its facade is notable for extensive granite and limestone decoration.","narrative":"Lenox Hill Station is a three-story post office at 221 East 70th Street in Manhattan, completed in 1935 and originally called Station Y. Its first floor is rusticated limestone on a granite base, with red brick laid in Flemish bond above and a limestone pediment carrying an eagle roundel. Round-arched first-floor windows and Georgian-inspired second-floor window surrounds give the facade a Federal and Georgian character. Inside, the lobby keeps its original bronze tellers' screens, a Doric order of honey-colored marble, and a terrazzo floor. Architect Eric Kebbon designed it while serving on the temporary staff of the Treasury Department's Office of the Supervising Architect, during the public works programs that responded to Depression unemployment. It was one of twelve postal stations built in Manhattan in the mid-1930s. The nomination ranks it among the finest Colonial Revival post offices in New York State, noting its side entrances and elaborate limestone decoration, which set it apart from most others.","period_of_significance":"1935","architect_builder":"Eric Kebbon, Consulting Architect","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked as occupied and publicly owned; the building is described as retaining a high degree of integrity on the exterior and interior.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:46.142444-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002363.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002363/ff9bb60204-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002363/ff9bb60204-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lobby_of_Lenox_Hill_post_office,_New_York,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Lobby_of_Lenox_Hill_post_office,_New_York,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313839","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office%E2%80%93Lenox_Hill_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891150"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/us-post-office-lenox-hill-station-88002363/"}