United States Post Office (Great Neck, New York)

US Post Office-Great Neck is a historic post office building located at Great Neck Plaza in the town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States. It was built in 1939 and designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster (1890-1958) for the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a one-story, pentagonal shaped skeletal frame building clad with plucked textured buff limestone in the Classical Revival style. It features a semicircular entrance portico supported by four square columns. Above the entrance is a relief sculpture of an eagle with 13 stars sculpted in 1940 by Gaetano Cecere.^[2]

US Post Office-Great Neck
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The post office as seen from Welwyn Road.
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Location	1 Welwyn Rd., Great Neck Plaza, New York
Coordinates	40°47′14″N 73°43′23″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1939
Architect	Foster, William Dewey; Cecere, Gaetano
Architectural style	Classical Revival
MPS	US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP reference No.	88002526[1]
Added to NRHP	May 11, 1989

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It was designated as a local historical landmark on December 1, 2004.^[1]