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Title
Fort Moore Hill
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Harris, L. Mildred
Date Created and/or Issued
1950
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.
Formerly located at 451 N. Hill Street on Fort Moore Hill, the two-story Central Junior High School building was built in 1936 by the City of Los Angeles Board of Education and designed by architect A. C. Zimmerman in the Mediterranean Revival Style. In later years, the campus was known as the Los Angeles City Board of Education Administrative Offices with the address of 450 N. Grand Avenue.
Looking north towards Fort Moore Hill from the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse on December 6, 1950. Seen are the Hall of Justice, the excavation and construction of the Santa Ana Freeway/US 101 and a Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar on Spring Street. Atop Fort Moore Hill (upper left) are the Los Angeles City Board of Education Administrative Offices, formerly Central Junior High School.
Type
Image
Format
1 slide :color ;5 x 5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier
00109974
L. Mildred Harris Slide Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b94_f1_i30
CARL0005346167
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/123837
Subject
Los Angeles County Hall of Justice
Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles
Los Angeles Transit Lines
Public buildings--California--Los Angeles
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Express highways--Design and construction
Express highways--California, Southern
Building sites--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Parking lots--California--Los Angeles
Lampposts--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Street-railroads--California--Los Angeles
Electric railroads--Cars--California--Los Angeles
Renaissance revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Mediterranean influences
Spring Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Broadway (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hill Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Fort Moore Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Santa Ana Freeway (Calif.)
United States Highway 101
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Slides
Zimmerman, A. C
Allied Architects Association of Los Angeles

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