{"nrhp_refnum":"88002458","name":"US Post Office-Morrisania","other_names":["Morrisania Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"442 E. 167th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"The Bronx","state":"NY","lat":40.82986276100007,"lon":-73.90898093899995,"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":"Morrisania Station Post Office, originally Station \"T\", is a two-story red brick post office at 442 East 167th Street in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, designed in 1934 and built in 1936.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative example of federal architecture produced by Depression-era public works programs. It is a refined Colonial Revival design by consulting architect William Dewey Foster for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. It shows typical 1930s post office traits such as a symmetrical facade, central entrance and brick-and-limestone detailing, plus an arcaded ground floor shared with several other New York City stations.","narrative":"Morrisania Station Post Office is a two-story, five-bay red brick building at 442 East 167th Street in the Bronx, originally called Station \"T.\" Designed in 1934 and completed in 1936, it was one of five postal stations built in the borough to serve a newly enlarged population, as part of federal work projects during the Great Depression. William Dewey Foster, a private architect hired as a consultant to the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, designed it in a simplified Colonial Revival style. The ground floor has an arcade of five recessed round arches with limestone keystones, topped by a limestone beltcourse inscribed \"United States Post Office,\" and a hip roof. Inside, the lobby keeps some original stone, plaster, metal and terrazzo, though the screenline and lockboxes are modern. The building retains its exterior integrity and is a typical example of Foster's postal work and of 1930s post office design in New York City.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1936)","architect_builder":"William Dewey Foster, Consulting Architect","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered; the building retains exterior integrity and, to a lesser extent, interior integrity. It is listed as occupied government use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.215009-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002458.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002458/62bdc81dae-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002458/62bdc81dae-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ALT55-VictorM","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office-Morrisania,_442_E._167th_St._Morrisania,_Bronx_County,_New_York.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">ALT55-VictorM</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:US_Post_Office-Morrisania,_442_E._167th_St._Morrisania,_Bronx_County,_New_York.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312108","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Morrisania,_Bronx)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707567"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/the-bronx/us-post-office-morrisania-88002458/"}