{"nrhp_refnum":"96000426","name":"City Hall-City of Burbank","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"275 E. Olive Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Burbank","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.18188294500004,"lon":-118.30848147199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-04-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Burbank City Hall is a two-story Moderne government building of reinforced concrete at 275 E. Olive Avenue, Burbank, California, completed in 1943 and designed by architects William Allen and W. George Lutzi.","why_significant":"It is tied to the wartime growth of Burbank's aircraft and film industries, when the city needed a new civic center. It was funded and built by the city after WPA support ended. It is also a late example of P.W.A. Moderne architecture, with notable Hugo Ballin murals.","narrative":"Burbank City Hall, at 275 E. Olive Avenue, is a two-story reinforced concrete building in the Moderne style, with a four-story central tower and a front courtyard fountain. Finished in 1943 and designed by architects William Allen and W. George Lutzi, it was meant to give a booming wartime city a single home for its government. Lockheed and the film studios had expanded rapidly, and the 1916 city hall could no longer hold municipal operations. A federal WPA project was planned, but the program ended soon after construction began, so city employees and city funds completed the work. Originally the building also held a jail, an emergency hospital, a courtroom and fire alarm headquarters. Inside, a marble lobby carries aviation-themed details and two murals by Hugo Ballin, Four Freedoms and Burbank Industry. The building is considered one of the last examples of P.W.A. Moderne in Southern California and remains the center of local government.","period_of_significance":"1943-1945","architect_builder":"Allen, William and Lutzi, W. George","architectural_style":"Moderne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"In continuous use as the city's seat of government since 1943; well maintained and largely unchanged apart from a 1961 connecting corridor and a 1992 elevator addition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.565664-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/96000426.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000426/679a6c6af6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000426/679a6c6af6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Trougnouf (Benoit Brummer)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burbank_City_Hall_(DSCF0794-DSCF0798).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Trougnouf (Benoit Brummer)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burbank_City_Hall_(DSCF0794-DSCF0798).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859031","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burbank_City_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1010274"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/city-hall-city-of-burbank-96000426/"}