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Title
Baker Block
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1940
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 ornate three-story Baker Block was completed around 1877 by Colonel Robert S. Baker. For a number of years, the building housed offices, shops, and apartments. Goodwill Industries of Southern California purchased it in 1919. Despite plans to relocate the structure for another purpose, the city purchased the Baker Block from Goodwill in 1941 and demolished the building a year later. U.S. Route 101 now runs beneath where these buildings once stood.
Transom windows and the detail of the suspended widows above them are the points of interest.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00019191
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Buildings-Baker Block.
CARL0000023698
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/89705
Subject
Baker Block (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Commercial buildings--California--Los Angeles
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Architecture--California--Los Angeles--French influences
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Main Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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