US Post Office Hollywood
The US Post Office in Hollywood is the post office in Hollywood , California, responsible for zip code 90048 . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 1985 as a monument .
When the renowned Art Déco architect Claud Beelman , then a partner in the Curlett + Beelman architecture firm, was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to plan the construction of a post office in Hollywood in 1937, he had no idea that this building was the end of the line Love letters to Hollywood stars like Clark Gable, Judy Garland and others would be. The year 1937 was a successful one for Beelman, as the WPA also entrusted him with the planning of the Los Angeles County Fair Gallery.
The structure is one of the few historic government buildings in Hollywood that has not yet been demolished to create modern apartments. The post office is thus a standing legacy of Beelman, who taught himself his art and who dedicated himself to modern architecture at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is built in the style of Streamline Modernism .
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- ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed June 2, 2016
Coordinates: 34 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ N , 118 ° 19 ′ 50 ″ W.