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US Post Office--San Pedro Main
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
San Pedro Post Office, 2008
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Location	839 S. Beacon St., San Pedro, California
Coordinates	33°44′11″N 118°16′51″W / 33.73639°N 118.28083°W / 33.73639; -118.28083
Built	1936
Architect	Simon, Louis A.
Architectural style	WPA Moderne; Classized Art Deco
MPS	US Post Office in California 1900-1941 TR
NRHP reference No.	85000132
Added to NRHP	January 11, 1985

The U.S. Post Office in San Pedro, California, is a historic Streamline Moderne post office built in 1936. Designed by supervising architect Louis A. Simon with architects Gordon Kaufmann and W. Horace Austin, the San Pedro Post Office was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The building also formerly served as a U.S. Customs Office. The building's use of marble, bronze and milk glass are typical of 1930s architecture for U.S. government buildings. The floor tile is laid in a basketweave pattern surrounded by black marble, giving the effect of rugs on a marble floor. Some of the original bronze lamps and ink wells are still intact at the public writing desks. The Section of Painting and Sculpture commissioned Fletcher Martin to create the post office mural, titled Mail Transportation (1938).

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles
• List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Harbor area
• List of United States post offices
• List of United States post office murals

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
2. "Federal Building and Post Office – San Pedro CA". The Living New Deal. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
3. "Competition No. 1". Bulletin. No. 10. Washington, D.C.: Section of Painting and Sculpture. June–August 1936. Retrieved November 18, 2022.

External links

• Official website
• San Pedro Chamber of Commerce: San Pedro Post Office building
• "Time stands still at the San Pedro Post Office"— South Bay History (blog), May 23, 2015

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