United States Post Office Cooper Station

Architect: William Dewey Foster
Style: Streamline Moderne
City: Manhattan, NY

The United States Post Office Cooper Station, at 93 Fourth Avenue on the corner of East 11th Street, was built in 1937 in the Art Moderne style by consulting architect William Dewey Foster for the Treasury Department's Office of the Supervising Architect. It is named for Peter Cooper, the industrialist and philanthropist who founded the nearby Cooper Union, and serves the 10003 ZIP code covering the East Village.

the style

The building was designed in the streamlined, Streamline Moderne idiom, marking it as a Depression-era departure from the classical post office designs that came before it.

the architect

William Dewey Foster served as consulting architect on the building for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department.

significance

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 and is also listed on the New York State Register of Historic Places.

nearby

Grace Church 260 ft · Gothic Revival · 1847
Hamilton Fish House 0.2 mi · Federal · 1804
Consolidated Edison Company Building 0.2 mi · Neoclassical · 1928
Astor Place 0.2 mi · Beaux-Arts
Saint Mark's-in-the-Bowery Church 0.2 mi · Georgian
Ottendorfer Public Library and Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital 0.2 mi · Renaissance Revival

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