{"nrhp_refnum":"85000130","name":"US Post Office-Hollywood Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1615 N. Wilcox Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.100072013000045,"lon":-118.33134046899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-01-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small reinforced concrete post office at 1615 N. Wilcox Avenue in Hollywood, Los Angeles, completed in 1937 and still in government use as a postal station.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a rare, intact and almost archetypal example of Starved Classical style, a mid-1930s post office, and is exceptionally significant to Hollywood and California despite being under 50 years old. It also contains a Treasury Relief Art Project wood relief sculpture by Gordon Newell and Sherry Peticolos in the lobby.","narrative":"Hollywood Station is a small post office on Wilcox Avenue, half a block south of Hollywood Boulevard. Completed in 1937, it is built of reinforced concrete with cast stone ornament limited to fluting and floral patterns. The front is symmetrical, with a taller central section flanked by two single-story wings, and the original bronze and glass entrance doors and bronze light fixtures remain. Inside, the lobby keeps its terrazzo floor, limestone wainscoting, fluted marble pilasters and wrought iron registers. A low-relief mahogany panel by Gordon Newell and Sherry Peticolos, commissioned under the Treasury Relief Art Program, shows a figure holding two horses; locals call it a Pony Express rider, though the text doubts this. The building was listed as an almost archetypal Starved Classical post office, a classical design in modernist form that kept its integrity despite a 1960s access ramp and rear workroom additions not visible from the street.","period_of_significance":"1937","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Starved Classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in government use as a post office; condition listed as excellent and altered, with a 1960s access ramp and workroom additions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.325514-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/85000130.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000130/7206bcd144-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000130/7206bcd144-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Mollylou12 (talk) Courtesy (c) 2008 by Molly Berke","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Post_Office_Hollywood.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mollylou12 (talk) Courtesy (c) 2008 by Molly Berke</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Post_Office_Hollywood.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123857619","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Hollywood,_Los_Angeles)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2466371"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/us-post-office-hollywood-station-85000130/"}