Old Chelsea Station Post Office (New York City, New York)

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2-story Colonial-revival post office building completed in 1937. Designed by Eric Kebbon, it was originally known as "Station O". The main brown brick facade spans seven bays, with an additional section at the west end that has two very wide bays of segmental-arches at the ground floor that are open to delivery bays for mail trucks, with a pair of windows in each bay on the 2nd floor. A stone cornice caps this extension, and continues along the main facade, just below a brick parapet with stone coping.

Two rusticated brick piers separate the main facade from the western section, and from a narrow bay at the far east end that has a service door at the ground floor and a circular window on the 2nd. Along the ground floor, all of the seven main bays have round-arches; two of them have limestone infill with metal doors below transoms and stone eagles in the arches. The doors are flanked by squared Doric pilasters. The other bays have multi-paned, round-arched windows with stone sills. Stone rosettes decorate the facade around both of the entrance arches.

A broad stone band separate the two floors, with metal letters reading "OLD CHELSEA STATION NEW YORK N.Y.", and the stone band below the cornice at the top of the 2nd floor has carved letters reading "UNITED STATES POST OFFICE". The 2nd floor has black-framed square-headed windows at each bay.

In 2015 plans were made to sell the air rights above the building, which would allow for a residential structure of up to eight floors to be constructed on top, set back from the building line. The post office below would continue to function.

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