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Title
Foy Building
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1959
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
The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse was built 1937-1940, and is an excellent example of PWA Moderne style. Architect: Gilbert Stanley Underwood.
View of the Foy building in center foreground, formerly on 315 N. Los Angeles Street, Dec. 12, 1959. The Federal Building and Post Office is visible in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00018586
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
.A.-Buildings-Foy Building.; S-003-290 4x5
CARL0000023941
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/89260
Subject
United States Court House and Post Office (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Courthouses--California--Los Angeles
Post office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Underwood, Gilbert Stanley
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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