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Title
Police building interiors
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1955
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
Located at 150 N. Los Angeles Street, the Police Administration Building served as the headquarters for the Los Angeles Police Dept. from 1955 to 2009. Designed by Welton Becket, the 7-story, Modernist structure includes a horizontal slab with bands of windows on the long east and west sides, and glazed terra cotta panels on the short north and south sides. Horizontal 2-story wings extend out into the surrounding parking lots, defining an entrance plaza and a visual base for the building. After the sudden death of Police Chief William H. Parker on July 16, 1966, the building was renamed Parker Center.
Two different views. View 1: shows a man touching the wall of the auditorium at Parker Center. View 2: a man stands in the lineup area at Parker Center.
Type
image
Format
2 photographic prints :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00018998
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Buildings-Police Building; S-004-822 4x5
CARL0000022979
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/88761
Subject
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Police Department
Parker Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Police stations--California--Los Angeles
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Interiors--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Welton Becket and Associates

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