The United States Post Office in

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, Los Angeles, California, also known as Hollywood Station, is an active U.S.

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located at 1615 Wilcox, between Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards. It is on the

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In 1937, renowned

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architect

Claud Beelman Claud W. Beelman (1884 – January 30, 1963), sometimes known as Claude Beelman, was an American architect who designed many examples of Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts, Art Deco, and Streamline Moderne style buildings. Many of his buildings ...

, a partner at Curlett + Beelman, was commissioned by the

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(WPA) to design the Hollywood Post Office Building. He worked with the Los Angeles architectural firm

Allison & Allison Allison & Allison was the architectural firm of brothers James E. Allison (1870 – 1955) and David C. Allison (1881 – 1962). They established their firm in Pittsburgh in 1904 and moved to Los Angeles in 1910, where they would become we ...

.United States Post Office — Hollywood Station
/ref> Beelman also designed the Los Angeles County Fair Gallery, also commissioned by the WPA in 1937, now known as the

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Center for the Arts at

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. A wooden

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for interior lobby, titled ''The Horseman'', was carved by artist Gordon Newell as a

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commission. It is still in the building, located over a doorway. Using a

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, the ground breaking was done by

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of the

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. The post office is one of the few historic government buildings remaining relatively unchanged in Hollywood.

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* 1930s architecture in the United States 1937 establishments in California Allison & Allison buildings Art Deco architecture in California Buildings and structures in Hollywood, Los Angeles Buildings and structures in Los Angeles Government buildings completed in 1937 Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments

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