U.S. Post Office (Hollywood, California)

Infobox_nrhp | name =US Post Office--Hollywood Station
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caption = Beelman's Hollywood, California Post Office, courtesy (c) 2008 by Molly Berke.
location= 1615 N. Wilcox Ave., Los Angeles, California
lat_degrees = 34
lat_minutes = 6
lat_seconds = 0
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 118
long_minutes = 19
long_seconds = 50
long_direction = W
locmapin = California
area =
built =1937
architect= Claud Beelman
architecture= Art Deco
added = January 11, 1985cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = U.S. Postal Service
mpsub= [http://www.nr.nps.gov/multiples/64000070.pdf US Post Office in California 1900-1941 TR]
refnum=85000130

The U.S. Post Office in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, also known as Hollywood Station serves zip code 90048 and others.

In 1937, renowned art deco architect Claud Beelman, then partner at Curlett + Beelman, could not have had any inkling that his WPA commissioned Hollywood Post Office Building, (located at 1615 Wilcox) would end up being a dead letter repository for love letters to such Hollywood luminaries as Clark Gable, Judy Garland, et al. 1937 was a landmark year for Beelman, as he was also bestowed the honor of building the Los Angeles County Fair Gallery, commissioned by the WPA. Another interesting fact is that a wood relief, titled "The Horseman", carved by artist Gordon Newell, still stands above a door inside the Hollywood Station Post Office. That sculpture was also another WPA commissioned work in 1937.

One of the few governmental and historical structures left unscathed in Hollywood, whose DMV offices recently have even been razed for some new upscale lofts being built in recent months, the Hollywood Post Office is a standing testament to the solid design ethic of Beelman, a self-trained draftsman turned "moderne" architect at the turn of the last century.

Los Angeles architectural fans can only hope that the U.S. Post Office--Hollywood Station, whose ground breaking was personally tilled by the infamous censor Will B. Hayes by steam shovel, no less, will not be itself censored into oblivion in a new millennium of urban renewal in the Hollywood area.

ee also

* List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles

References