United States Post Office (Garden City, New York)

US Post Office-Garden City
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Garden City Post Office, June 2010

Location	600 Franklin Street, Garden City, New York
Coordinates	40°43′25.8″N 73°38′02.1″W / 40.723833°N 73.633917°W / 40.723833; -73.633917Coordinates: 40°43′25.8″N 73°38′02.1″W / 40.723833°N 73.633917°W / 40.723833; -73.633917
Area	less than one acre
Built	1936
Architect	Walker & Gillette; Johnson, J. Theodore
Architectural style	Classical Revival
MPS	US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP Reference #	88002521^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 11, 1989

US Post Office-Garden City is a historic post office building located at Garden City in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States. It was built in 1936 and designed by consulting architects Walker & Gillette for the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a one story, square brick building on a granite in the Classical Revival style. The lobby features a 1937 mural by J. Theodore Johnson titled "Huckleberry Frolic."^[2] On December 24, 1987, the building was named in honor of former Congressman John W. Wydler (1924-1987).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.^[1]

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Dedicated by Henry Morgenthau Jr. and James A. Farley; 1936
Named for John W. Wydler; 1987
The original flagpole base

References

1 2 Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2016-03-01. Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (July 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Garden City Post Office" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-03-01. and Accompanying two photographs

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