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Description
Photograph of a model of the "Suncrest" apartment building. "Office and apartment building being built for George Alexander on Sunset strip -- Site is between Sunset and De longpre cost $125,000 will be 'deluxe' with 100-car underground garage." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 7 October 1956. "The office section of the new Sunset Crest, designed by Palmer and Krisel, A.I.A. for the George Alexander Company, fronts on Sunset, with the two wings of the apartment house extending south to DeLongpre. Three stories high, the building is constructed on six different levels." -- typed note attached to verso. "Unique office-apartment structure to open -- $1,250,000 project, on six levels, at 8400 Sunset Boulevard." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 9 February 1958.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w photographic prints photographs study models art
Los Angeles--City--Buildings--Miscellaneous Los Angeles--City--Buildings--S
Time Period
circa 1956-10-07
Place
-118.37845,34.09419 -118.37526,34.09067 -118.37274,34.09439 -118.37546,34.09921 8400 Sunset Boulevard La Cienega Boulevard California Los Angeles Sunset Crest Sunset Tower West USA
Source
3-1275-02805-7157; 3-1275-02806-2405; 3142; unidentified no: 2267-1 [Identifying Number] EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-440 [Original Filename] Subjects 317; Subjects 318 [Print Box] University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
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