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Photograph of Beverly Hills Main Post Office
Photograph by Toglenn, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

US Post Office-Beverly Hills Main

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“The old Beverly Hills Main Post Office is a Renaissance Revival building at the Beverly Hills Civic Center in Beverly Hills, California. The building has carried the addresses 469 North Crescent Drive and 470 North Canon Drive.”

Wikipedia article Beverly Hills Main Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. US Post Office--Beverly Hills Main - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 469 N. Crescent Dr., Beverly Hills, 90210
  • When was it listed? January 1985
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. US Post Office in California 1900-1941 TR
  • Census division. Los Angeles
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 85000126 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1894 to 1979

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering US Post Office-Beverly Hills Main, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet covering US Post Office-Beverly Hills Main, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

49 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Beverly Hills Main between 1995 and 2020, burning about 617 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaEAST FIRE
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
18 September 1995Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaFRANKLIN
3 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaFRYMAN
26 August 2009Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
23 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
20 August 2010Smoking1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 July 2009Misuse of fire by a minor80 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Beverly Hills Main: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gladding-Mcbean-Santa Monica PitClayPast Producer
J. JensenClayUnknown
Simons Brick Co.-Santa Monica PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

20 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Anderton Court Shops0.3 miles2004
Beverly Wilshire Hotel0.8 miles1987
Karasik House1.0 miles2011
Lloyd Wright Home and Studio1.1 miles1987
Mitchell Camera Corporation-Studio One1.2 miles
Virginia Robinson Estate1.3 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85000126 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Los Angeles CountyAll 616 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.