Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a drawing of an exterior view of the United States Courthouse and Post Office that stood at Main Street and Winston Street in Los Angeles, 1888. The three-story stone courthouse is at center and its façade faces slightly to the right. A cylindrical tower is on the corner of the building at center, and arches and columns dominate the architecture. Two dormers can be seen protruding from the roof, along with a brick chimney. An American flag flies from a pole on the roof. Several horse-drawn carriages can be seen on the unpaved streets in front of the building. More buildings can be seen in the distance, including a church at left. Writing in the bottom right corner identifies Will A. Freret as the supervising architect. Note: despite the "1875" note penciled in the drawing, a number of sources (including "U.S. Treasury Department, A History of Public Buildings (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1901): 32-33" and "Architect & Building News of March, 1888") give 1888 as the year the drawing was created in. Additional Information: The building was completed in 1892 the U.S. District for the Southern District of California met there until 1901 and the U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of California met there until 1901. The building was half wrecked in 1901 (just nine years after it opened) in preparation to build a larger federal building on the same site. However, that plan did not work out. The ruins stood until 1906 when the property was sold. A new, larger federal building was built at a new site, the NW corner of the then-intersection of Temple Main and Spring. The federal court, post office and other federal agencies left their temporary locations and moved to this new federal building in 1910.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs art
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