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This July 11, 1941, aerial view of Capitol Park and several State government office buildings comes from the southeast. In the late 1930s, California Governor Frank Merriman resolved to centralize all of the State's agencies in Sacramento. This, in part, resulted in the pictured row of buildings along N Street, which were built between 1935 and 1939. The H-shaped structure to the far right of the photograph is the Department of Motor Vehicles building. To the left of it is the Department of Public Works. To its left is State Office Building Number 3. State Office Building Number 2 sits to the lower, left-hand corner of the photograph. The DMV building was vacated in 1953 for a new office on Twenty-Fourth and Broadway.
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