Post Office - La Jolla CA The La Jolla post office is a fine example of Mission Revival architecture, which was wildly popular in Southern California in the interwar period. Many New Deal buildings in the region adopted this prevailing style. The La Jolla post office is built of concrete, covered with stucco and roofed with terra cotta tiles – except on the flat-roof wings.
This post office was jointly funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA) and Treasury Department (US Post Office) -- possibly because the PWA invested heavily in Southern California in the wake of the 1933 Long Beach earthquake.
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