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Coordinates:40°44′22″N73°59′2″W / 40.73944°N 73.98389°W /40.73944; -73.98389

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Historic post office in Manhattan, New York

United States historic place


United States Post Office Madison Square Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

(October 2008)
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Location	149-153 E. 23rd St. Manhattan,New York City
Coordinates	40°44′22″N73°59′2″W / 40.73944°N 73.98389°W /40.73944; -73.98389
Built	1937^[2]
Architect	Lorimer Rich
Architectural style	Classical Revival
MPS	US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP reference No.	88002364^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 11, 1989

TheUnited States Post Office Madison Square Station is a historicpost office building located at 149East 23rd Street betweenLexington Avenue andThird Avenue on theEast Side ofManhattan,New York City. In spite of the building's name, it is not located onMadison Square but about three blocks east (approximately 1/4 mile) along 23rd Street. The building runs through the block to East 24th Street, where there are loading docks and another much smaller and less formal public entrance.

The building was constructed in 1937, and was designed byLorimer Rich forLouis A. Simon, theSupervising Architect of the Treasury.^[2] It is a two to three story building clad on its main facade with polished "Dakota Mahogany"granite in theClassical Revival style. The main facade features six two-storyDoric order piers and pilaster that surround the recessed entrance bays. The exterior also features five bronze relief sculptures by artistsEdmond Amateis andLouis Slobodkin illustrating different forms of communication: from west to east, the godMercury, jungle drums, mail, carrier pigeon, and smoke signals. The interior features eight murals executed between 1937 and 1939 by artistKindred McLeary.^[3]

One ofKindred McLeary's murals, this one from the west wall of the main room

In the mid-1930s, the post office was included as part of a plan to haveFloyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn designated as the eastern terminus ofair mail, forming a link in the delivery of mail to theGeneral Post Office through its connection to thepneumatic mail tube system. The plan involved usingflying boats to transport mail from Floyd Bennett Field to anew seaplane base on East 23rd Street that was being constructed nearby.^[4]

The Madison Square Station was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in 1989.^[1]

The central one of the five relief sculptures shows a mailman with mailbags

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Notes

^^a ^b"National Register Information System".National Register of Historic Places.National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^^a ^bWhite, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000).AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press.ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5., p.212
^Larry E. Gobrecht (July 1986).National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York MPS US Post Office--Madison Square Station. National Archives and Records Administration. RetrievedNovember 8, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
^"Work to Start on New Skyport".Brooklyn Times-Union. March 1, 1936. RetrievedJanuary 25, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.

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See also:National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan (Islands,Below 14th St.,14th–59th Sts.,59th–110th Sts.,Above 110th St.) andList of National Historic Landmarks in New York City
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