Project
Summary

The Beverly Hills Main Post Office has been described as a textbook example of the Renaissance Revival style. The front elevation is marked by alternately arched and triangle-pedimented windows, and a rusticated terracotta beltcourse and quoining. The lobby is finished with marble veneer, and has a verde marble floor. Several Treasury Section of Fine Arts murals are placed in the public lobby. The post office was designed in an Italian Renaissance Revival style by architect Ralph C. Frewelling of Beverly Hills with Allison & Allison as consultants. It opened on April 28, 1934. In 1985, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In the 1990s it shut down as a functioning post office and a new one was built a few blocks over. It now serves as a performing arts center.