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San Pedro Post Office, 2008
United States Post Office (San Pedro, Los Angeles) is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
United States Post Office (San Pedro, Los Angeles)
Location within the Los Angeles metropolitan area
United States Post Office (San Pedro, Los Angeles) is located in California
United States Post Office (San Pedro, Los Angeles)
Location within California
United States Post Office (San Pedro, Los Angeles) is located in the United States
United States Post Office (San Pedro, Los Angeles)
Location within the United States
Location839 S. Beacon St., San Pedro, California
Coordinates33°44′11″N 118°16′51″W / 33.73639°N 118.28083°W / 33.73639; -118.28083
Built1936
ArchitectsSimon, Louis A.
Architectural styleWPA Moderne; Classized Art Deco
MPSUS Post Office in California 1900-1941 TR
NRHP reference No.85000132 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 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).[2][3] The ground floor hosts the one-room San Pedro Postal Museum, "open to the public on a call-ahead appointment basis."[4]

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  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.
  4. ↑ Gnerre, Sam (May 23, 2015). "Time stands still at the San Pedro Post Office". South Bay History. Retrieved August 8, 2026.
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