{"nrhp_refnum":"88002365","name":"US Post Office-Old Chelsea Station","other_names":["Old Chelsea Station Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"217 W. 18th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.768605593000075,"lon":-73.99837515699994,"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 Colonial Revival post office at 217 West 18th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, New York City, designed in 1935 and completed in 1937 by architect Eric Kebbon.","why_significant":"It is an intact, representative example of the federal architecture built as Depression-era public works projects in the 1930s. It shows the typical features of post offices of that era, including a symmetrical facade, brick and limestone detailing, multi-paned sash and a standard floor plan. It also holds two cast-stone relief panels, \"Deer\" and \"Bear,\" carved by Paul Fiene in 1938 for the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.","narrative":"Old Chelsea Station Post Office, at 217 West 18th Street in Manhattan, is a two-story Colonial Revival building faced in Flemish-bond red brick with limestone trim. A seven-bay main block with a ground-floor arcade of round-arched openings sits between a single-bay east wing and a four-bay service wing with vehicular entrances. Inside, the lobby has marble and wooden pilasters, a largely intact screenline with wide openings for large packages, and terrazzo and marble floors. Eric Kebbon designed it in 1935 as a consulting architect for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, and it opened in 1937. It was one of twelve new postal stations built in Manhattan in the mid-1930s as Depression-era public works to ease unemployment. The building is valued as an intact example of that program's design. It also contains two cast-stone relief panels, \"Deer\" and \"Bear,\" made by Paul Fiene in 1938 for the Section of Fine Arts.","period_of_significance":"1935-7; 1938","architect_builder":"Eric Kebbon, Consulting Architect","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, altered, and occupied; the building retains 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 02:50:45.652136-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002365.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002365/b679358423-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002365/b679358423-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Chelsea_Station_Post_Offiice_from_west.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:Old_Chelsea_Station_Post_Offiice_from_west.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313823","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Old_Chelsea_Station)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891168"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/us-post-office-old-chelsea-station-88002365/"}