{"nrhp_refnum":"88002460","name":"US Post Office-Flatbush Station","other_names":["Flatbush Station"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2273 Church Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.65076251800008,"lon":-73.95625726299994,"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":"A two-story red brick post office at 2273 Church Avenue in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York, designed in 1935 and built in 1936 in the Colonial Revival style.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is architecturally significant for its distinctive, academic use of Colonial Revival for a public building, designed to resemble an idealized Georgian-style residence. It is credited to consulting architect Lorimer Rich and was part of the federal public works program of the Great Depression. It is atypical among New York State post offices of the period.","narrative":"Flatbush Station is a two-story red brick post office at 2273 Church Avenue in Brooklyn, designed in 1935 and completed in 1936. Its steep gable roof, symmetrical facade, twelve-over-twelve windows, limestone lintels and sills, ocular gable window and multi-paned transom give it the look of an idealized Georgian-era house. Lorimer Rich, a consulting architect to the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, is credited with the design. Rich is best known for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. The building was one of many post offices authorized during the 1930s as public works projects responding to Depression-era unemployment. It was needed because apartment construction in the 1920s had sharply increased Flatbush's population. Its academic Colonial Revival design is unusual compared with most New York State post offices of the period, and it relates closely to Kensington Station in Brooklyn and West Farms Station in the Bronx. The exterior remains largely intact, while the lobby has been altered.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Lorimer Rich, consulting architect; Pfeiffer and Neumeyer Construction Company of New York City, general contractors","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered; exterior retains a high degree of integrity, interior less so. Lobby has a dropped ceiling, security screenline and modern lockboxes.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.573372-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002460.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002460/8999fd14c1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002460/8999fd14c1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flatbush_PO_jeh.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flatbush_PO_jeh.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313315","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Flatbush,_Brooklyn)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890947"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/us-post-office-flatbush-station-88002460/"}