{"nrhp_refnum":"88002463","name":"US Post Office-Parkville Station","other_names":["Parkville Station"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6618 20th Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.61572425800006,"lon":-73.98718429099995,"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 6618 20th Avenue, at the corner of 67th Street, in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, designed in 1935 and built in 1936-37 by Globe Building Corporation.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative example of federal architecture from the Great Depression public works programs. It is a simple Colonial Revival design by consulting architect Carroll H. Pratt for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. Its massing and plan are typical of 1930s post offices and are repeated at other New York City postal stations.","narrative":"Parkville Station is a two-story post office at 6618 20th Avenue in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst neighborhood. Designed in 1935 and completed in 1937, it is clad in red brick with limestone trim and has a projecting three-bay central pavilion, round-arched openings, brick quoins and splayed lintels with keystones. A one-story rear wing houses the workroom, and a sympathetic addition was made on the north side in the 1970s. Inside, the lobby keeps a metal vestibule, terrazzo floor, marble baseboard and beamed plaster ceiling. The building was one of many federal projects undertaken during the Great Depression. Its Colonial Revival design came from Carroll H. Pratt, a Brooklyn architect hired as a consultant by the Treasury's Supervising Architect office. Bensonhurst's rapid growth in the early twentieth century created the need for a large post office. The building is valued as an intact example of 1930s post office design, with a symmetrical facade, standardized plan and sturdy construction shared with other New York City stations.","period_of_significance":"1936-7","architect_builder":"Carroll H. Pratt, Consulting Architect; built by Globe Building Corporation","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good; retains integrity inside and out, with a 1970s non-contributing addition on the north side. The building is occupied and functions as a post office station.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:46.129071-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002463.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002463/b5d46c663a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002463/b5d46c663a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Roman Sheydvasser","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parkville_USPS_Office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Roman Sheydvasser</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:Parkville_USPS_Office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313319","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Bensonhurst,_Brooklyn)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890912"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/us-post-office-parkville-station-88002463/"}