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Title: Metropolitan Water District headquarters, Sunset Blvd
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Hankey, Roy
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1976
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
The headquarters of the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) at 1111 Sunset Blvd. was designed by William L. Pereira & Associates in 1961 and completed in 1963. 30 years later, the MWD moved their offices to another location and this structure sat vacant for almost 2 decades. In 2014, the tower building on the property reopened as The Elysian residential complex.
The Metropolitan Water District headquarters on Sunset Blvd. An unidentified man is seen outside the building.
Type: image
Format: 1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier: 00160850
Roy Hankey Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_123_f1_s1
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/134310
Subject: Metropolitan Water District Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
William L. Pereira and Associates
Office buildings
Trees
Men
Plants
Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Beaudry Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1971-1980
Source: Hankey, Roy.

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