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Title
Pacific Mutual Building addition
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Dwyer Studio
Date Created and/or Issued
1929
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
The Pacific Mutual Building, located at 523 W. 6th Street, is actually three interconnected buildings built between 1908 and 1929. The original structure was designed and built between 1908-1912 by John Parkinson and Edwin Bergstrom. Since then, it has undergone many changes: the North Side addition was built in 1916 by William J. Dodd; a twelve-story structure was built in 1921 by William J. Dodd and his associate William Richards; the Garage Building was added in 1926 by Schultze and Weaver; and the West Side addition, designed by Parkinson and Parkinson, was erected in 1929 by Scofield-Twaits Company. It underwent Moderne remodeling in 1936 by Parkinson and Parkinson; and in 1974, the building underwent an extensive restoration by Wendell Mounce and Associates, with Bond and Steward, which brought back its original Beaux Arts revival style; finally, the entire building was renovated again by the Westgroup, Inc. in 1985. The Pacific Mutual Building is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #398.
Looking northeast across 6th Street towards the construction site of the Pacific Mutual Building West Side addition. Photograph dated May 23, 1929.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 22 cm. on sheet 28 x 22 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00110583
Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b92_f1_i7
CARL0005236333
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116564
Subject
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company
Building construction--California--Los Angeles
Steel framing (Building)--California--Los Angeles
Scaffolding
Construction equipment--California--Los Angeles
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Sidewalks--California--Los Angeles
Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Eclecticism in architecture--California--Los Angeles
Parkinson, John,1861-1935
Parkinson, Donald B.(Donald Berthold),1895-1945
Sixth Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Schultze & Weaver
Scofield-Twaits Company

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