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 an exterior view of the First Presbyterian Church on the corner of Second Street and Broadway, looking southeast, Los Angeles, after 1881. A horse-drawn coach stands parked in the street to the right of the Gothic 1st Presbyterian Church and its impressively tall spire. A man stands in the unpaved street farther to the right. A wrought-iron fence enclosed a garden of topiary across the street to the left. The Jewish Synagogue can be seen behind the church to the right. The church was located at the south-east corner of Broadway and Second Street it was sold in 1897, and presumed demolished soon thereafter.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: photoprint, b&w. photographic prints photographs
Churches Synagogues First Presbyterian Church Los Angeles--Churches--Presbyterian Los Angeles--Architecture--Churches--Presbyterian Religious facilities
Place
-118.24581,34.0527 -118.24494,34.05233 -118.2458,34.05047 -118.24692,34.05233 Broadway & West 2nd Street California Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles First Presbyterian Church USA after 1881
Source
1-16-60 [Microfiche number] 7386 [Accession number] CHS-7386 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] isla id: S-4558 [Identifying number]
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