Beverly Hills Main Post Office
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The City of Beverly Hills bought this Pacific Electric Railway station site in 1930 to build its main post office as part of the new Beverly Hills Civic Center. Architect Ralph C. Frewelling designed the Italian Renaissance Revival building with Allison & Allison as consulting architects, and it opened on April 28, 1934 as a WPA project built by contractors Sarver and Zoss. It served as the city's post office until the 1990s before becoming the Paula Kent Meehan Historic Building of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in the 2010s.
the building
A civic center building on railway land. The post office rose on land the City of Beverly Hills bought from the Pacific Electric Railway Company in 1930, formerly the site of the railway's Beverly Hills station, folding transit-era ground into the new Civic Center plan.
the style
Frewelling worked in an Italian Renaissance Revival idiom for the post office, giving a WPA-era civic building the formal, classical dignity typical of the style.
More on Renaissance Revivalthe architect
Ralph C. Frewelling, based in Beverly Hills, designed the building with the firm Allison & Allison serving as consulting architects.
significance
The building later became the Paula Kent Meehan Historic Building of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in the 2010s, after decades of service as Beverly Hills' main post office through the 1990s.
nearby
- Tail o' the Pup
- Saban Theatre
- Beverly Hills City Hall
- Wilshire Beverly Center
- Anderton Court Shops
- Lloyd Wright Home and Studio