96 Fourth St., New York, New York. County/parish: New York.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 11, 1989. NRIS 88002360.
Part of US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR (NRIS 64000597).
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The United States Post Office Cooper Station, located at 93 Fourth Avenue, on the corner of East 11th Street in Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1937, and was designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster in the Art Moderne style for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury. It serves the 10003 ZIP code, which covers the neighborhood of the East Village. Its sub-station is located on East 3rd Street near Avenue C.
The post office is named in honor of Peter Cooper, the mid-19th century industrialist and philanthropist who founded the nearby The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313831