{"nrhp_refnum":"85000127","name":"US Post Office-Burbank Downtown Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"125 E. Olive Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Burbank","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.17996871400004,"lon":-118.31040502899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-01-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1937 post office building at 125 E. Olive Avenue in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood in an eclectic Mediterranean style.","why_significant":"The nomination argues for exceptional significance because the building is under 50 years old but has high artistic values under Criterion C. It is a rare surviving example of the small Spanish/Mediterranean-style post offices built by the federal government in 1930s southern California, most of which have been heavily altered. It is also a smaller work by a prominent architect and contains two murals by Barse Miller, a noted federal-project artist.","narrative":"Burbank's Downtown Station post office, at 125 E. Olive Avenue, was completed in 1937 to designs by Los Angeles architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood. It is a steel-frame, reinforced concrete building with a Spanish tile roof, an arcaded entry loggia, recessed windows, wrought iron details and an irregular, picturesque massing that gives it the feel of a large residence. Inside, decorative glazed tiles with Spanish motifs line the lobby, and the original skylight and wooden workroom floor survive. Two murals painted in 1940 by Barse Miller depict aviation and motion picture filming, the main industries of Burbank. The building was listed because, although under 50 years old, it shows high artistic value and is a rare, little-altered example of the small Mediterranean-style post offices once common in southern California. It also represents the smaller work of a leading 1930s architect and includes accomplished Depression-era mural art.","period_of_significance":"1937","architect_builder":"Gilbert Stanley Underwood","architectural_style":"Eclectic Mediterranean: Spanish Colonial Revival with Mission Revival and Pueblo Revival elements","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied government building in excellent condition and well maintained, with no significant interior or exterior modifications; a new HVAC system and a bank of post office boxes were added.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.003526-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/85000127.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000127/7ad79156ac-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000127/7ad79156ac-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Minnaert","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BurbankPostOffice.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnaert</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BurbankPostOffice.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123857615","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Burbank,_California)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104865149"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/us-post-office-burbank-downtown-station-85000127/"}