Ralph C. Flewelling Sites

One of the few municipal projects to be funded through the Hoover Administration's 1931 general appropriations bill (Pub. L. No. 869, 46 Stat. 1552, 1587), the former Post Office in Beverly Hills, CA, was completed by the Treasury Department in 1933. "The prominent and prolific Architect Ralph C. Flewelling, designer of buildings at UCLA and USC, in concert with Alison & Alison Architects, received the commission for the Italian Renaissance Revival style building. The Post Office officially opened in 1934 and was dedicated in 1936 under the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration" (see "Building History"). Of the post office, architect Flewelling said:...