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# Historyspotlight – Santa Monica City Hall
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/historyspotlight-santa-monica-city-hall/
- Published: 2019-06-24T12:20:15.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-17T18:41:53.000Z
- Author: Editor
- Tags: arts, Entertainment, Featured, Government & Politics, Lifestyle, News, Donald Parkinson, Federal Arts Project, Federal Public Works Administration, gladding mcbean, J. M. Estep, santa monica city hall, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 12:50

**Santa Monica City Hall**

**1685 Main Street**

**Built 1938, designated 1979**

The Art Deco-style City Hall was partially financed by the federal Public Works Administration. Designed by Donald Parkinson and J. M. Estep, the building is a concrete structure in the Classical Moderne style, popular in the 1930s and 1940s, and carries a nautical tone to suit this oceanside community. The entrance is decorated with colorful tile work by the local Gladding McBean Tile Company. The lobby murals designed by Stanton MacDonald-Wright were installed under the auspices of the Federal Arts Project. This building provided jobs and pride to the community during the Great Depression, and it is a standing tribute to cooperation among residents, city officials and the federal government.