Subject: Legal / Genre: exterior views / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The old Romanesque style Los Angeles City Hall from a view looking south on Broadway between Second Street and Third Street. Horse-drawn carriages are visible parked at the curb, and another moves by in a blur. The building was demolished after the new city hall was completed in 1928.
Date:: [circa 1888]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of the Los Angeles County Courthouse from Broadway. The courthouse, completed in 1891, was located at the corner of Broadway and Temple St. This red sandstone facility utilized aspects of the Richardsonian Romanesque Style, with thick, rusticated stone walls, wall dormers, and central clock tower. The architects were Curlett, Eisen and Cuthbertson; San Diego architect, William S. Hebbard, who was working for the architecture firm of Curlett, Eisen and Cuthbertson as a draftsman, contributed to the design. This court house was demolished in 1936
Date:: [circa 1900-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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