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Title
Department Buildings
Alternative Title
DWP Photo Collection ; Padilla Collection 1908-1935
Date Created and/or Issued
1932
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
DWP Photo Collection
Rights Information
Please contact DWP for assistance.
This is not a Library Collection, it is hosted for DWP. ; Researchers may view the collection in person at DWP by appointment only, Monday through Friday, 8am – 3pm. For information and appointments, contact Angela Tatum at (213) 367-8906. ; Photos that are published should properly credit the owner of the photo as “Historical Photo Collection of the Department of Water and Power, City of Los Angeles”.
Description
The intersection of North Los Angeles and Marchessault streets is not so vary far distant from our Broadway Building. A ten or fifteen minute stroll will bring one to a “flatiron” lot, bounded by these two thoroughfares and North Alameda Street. The sole occupant of this entire city block was, and still is, a sturdy, square, two-story brick structure. Built originally for a furniture factory, it was later remodeled to serve as the headquarters of our predecessor, the Los Angeles City Water Company. Ownership and occupancy next passed to the newly fledged City Water Department, in whose possession and that of its successors in interest, it still continues, no longer as offices, but only as a warehouse for a firm of Chinese importers and the domicile of a chop suey and noodles emporium
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
Identifier
1001233
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/dwp/id/1761
Subject
Streets
Buildings

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