Jamaica Chamber of Commerce Building
NY location listed on National Register of Historic Places
Jamaica Chamber of Commerce Building is a historic office building located in the Jamaica section of the New York City borough of Queens. It was designed in 1928 by George W. Conable (1866-1933) and is a ten-story, T-shaped building in the Colonial Revival style.
George W. Conable designed the building's facade based on 19th-century American and British precedents. It is a steel-frame building faced in red brick and trimmed in stone and terra cotta detail. It has tripartite massing with a one-story terra cotta base, six story section, and stepped back eighth and ninth stories. The top story is a one-story pedimented temple.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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