{"nrhp_refnum":"88002462","name":"US Post Office-Metropolitan Station","other_names":["Metropolitan Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"47 Debevoise St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.701883173000056,"lon":-73.94113732799997,"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 brick post office at 47 Debevoise Street in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, built in 1936-37 as Station \"A\" and now known as Metropolitan Station.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative example of federal architecture from Depression-era public works programs. It is an elegant example of the Colonial Revival style favored for post offices in the 1920s and 1930s, distinguished by its arcaded facade and brick, limestone and wood details. It is also described as one of the most distinctive buildings in its neighborhood.","narrative":"Metropolitan Station is a two-story, flat-roofed brick post office at 47 Debevoise Street in northwest Bushwick, Brooklyn. Completed in January 1937 by Gotham Construction Company, it was one of four post offices built in Brooklyn in the mid-1930s as part of federal building projects meant to ease Depression-era unemployment. Its architect is unknown, though it was designed under Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon and was probably the work of a consulting architect. The Colonial Revival design features a projecting three-bay central pavilion, a continuous ground-floor arcade of round-arched windows with splayed brick lintels, a limestone beltcourse and a modest molded cornice. The facade arcade appears to be inspired by Federal style architecture. Inside, the lobby keeps its black terrazzo floor, white marble wainscot and plaster ceiling, although the screenline is new. A modern rear addition is not counted as historic. The building was listed as an intact representative of 1930s federal construction and a distinctive local landmark.","period_of_significance":"1936-7","architect_builder":"Architect unknown; Gotham Construction Company was general contractor","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition; exterior and interior retain integrity, though the interior has been considerably altered and a modern one-story addition is non-contributing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.793165-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002462.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002462/9857f071c0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002462/9857f071c0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ALT55 - Victor M","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn-9-27-2013_038_-_US_Post_Office_-_Metropolitan_Station,_47_Debevoise_Street.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">ALT55 - Victor M</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:Brooklyn-9-27-2013_038_-_US_Post_Office_-_Metropolitan_Station,_47_Debevoise_Street.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313317","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Williamsburg,_Brooklyn)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891067"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/us-post-office-metropolitan-station-88002462/"}