It was built as the main post office in the 1930s,[3] remaining a post office until the 1990s,[1] and in the 2010s became the Paula Kent Meehan Historic Building of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

[1][3] Built as a WPA project,[4] with Sarver and Zoss of Los Angeles as contractors,[3] the post office opened on April 28, 1934.

[1] Even though the building was designed with the formal entrance facing north along Santa Monica Boulevard, the railway still owned tracks along the north and south, so the public mainly used the east and west entrances on Crescent Drive and Canon Drive.

[1] The Main Post Office on Crescent Drive was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

The old Post Office was sold back to the City of Beverly Hills in 1999.