United States Post Office
- Architect
- Claud Wilbur Beelman
- Year
- 1937
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
- Collection
- l.a. deco
The Hollywood Post Office at 1615 Wilcox Avenue was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration in 1937 and designed by Art Deco architect Claud Beelman, then a partner at Curlett + Beelman, working with the firm Allison & Allison. Will H. Hays of the Motion Picture Production Code broke ground with a steam shovel, and the building remains one of the few historic government buildings in Hollywood still relatively unchanged.
the building
The Horseman relief. Inside the lobby, a wooden bas-relief titled The Horseman hangs over a doorway. Carved by artist Gordon Newell, it was commissioned through the Treasury Relief Art Project, the federal program that placed artwork in New Deal-era public buildings.
the style
Beelman designed the post office in Art Deco, the same year he designed the WPA-commissioned Los Angeles County Fair Gallery — now the Millard Sheets Center for the Arts at Fairplex — for the same federal program.
More on Art Decothe architect
Claud Wilbur Beelman was a partner at Curlett + Beelman and a prolific Los Angeles Art Deco architect; the Hollywood Post Office was one of two WPA commissions he completed in 1937, alongside the Los Angeles County Fair Gallery.
significance
The post office is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and remains an active U.S. post office, one of the few historic federal buildings in Hollywood still relatively unchanged.
nearby
- Julian Medical Building
- Leed's Building
- Regal Shoes Building
- Johnny's Steak House Building
- Hallmark Building
- S. H. Kress and Co. Building