Image / Former Beverly Hills Water and Power building

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Title: Former Beverly Hills Water and Power building
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Haering, Michael
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1987
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: Designed by Los Angeles architects Salisbury, Bradshaw and Arthur Taylor and built in 1927, the building at 333 N. La Cienega Blvd. was affectionately called the "Public Water Cathedral" because of its monumental Spanish Romanesque style. In January 1991, it became the Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study, home of the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
Photograph caption dated September 3, 1987 reads, "Beverly Hills waterworks complex won't face wrecking ball, at least for now."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00043232
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b063_f6_i23
CARL0000046653
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13583
Subject: Public buildings--California--Beverly Hills
Streets--California--Beverly Hills
Trees--California--Beverly Hills
Romanesque revival (Architecture)--California--Beverly Hills--Spanish influences
La Cienega Boulevard (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Salisbury, Bradshaw & Taylor

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