George M. Lindsey

George Morrison Lindsey was a Southern California architect and engineer who hit his stride in the early 1920s. He started out as a draftsman before opening his own office in Los Angeles in 1921 at the Title Insurance Building, then leased space in Glendale later that year. By then, he'd met licensing requirements and was working as a certified architect.

Lindsey made his name designing civic and educational buildings—the kind of institutional work that shaped Greater Los Angeles between the wars. In Los Feliz, he's the architect behind John Marshall High School, a gorgeous Gothic/Collegiate Gothic campus that opened in January 1931. Over in Glendale, he designed the Main Post Office, done up in Italian Renaissance Revival with that classical symmetry you'd expect from Depression-era post offices.