Names: Los Angeles County Courthouse (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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

Description:: The original Los Angeles County Courthouse was built in 1891 on Poundcake Hill on the corner of Temple and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. The Victorian-style red sandstone building was declared unsafe after a 1933 earthquake, and demolished in 1936. Standing next to it was the Hall of Records.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: View from above of the original Los Angeles County Courthouse was built in 1891 on Poundcake Hill on the corner of Temple and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. The Victorian-style red sandstone building was declared unsafe after a 1933 earthquake, and demolished in 1936. Standing next to it was the Hall of Records.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: The original Los Angeles County Courthouse was built in 1891 on Poundcake Hill on the corner of Temple and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. The Victorian-style red sandstone building was declared unsafe after a 1933 earthquake, and demolished in 1936. Standing next to it was the Hall of Records.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Clara Phillips (left) in a courtroom with an unidentified man and woman during her trial for the murder of Alberta Meadows.
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Clara Phillips during her trial for the murder of Alberta Meadows. She is sitting in a Los Angeles Courthouse with her husband, A. L. Phillips (left) and an unidentified man.
Date:: [between 1922-1923]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Aerial view of the Los Angeles Civic Center. The City Hall is the towering building in the background, to the left is the County Courthouse and to the right is the Hall of Records. The City of Los Angeles Garage is in the forefront. Billboard advertisements frame the garage. The ads include: "Help us prevent fires 1927 Fire Prevention Year," "Langendorf Royal Breads," "Old Gold cigarettes," and "[Samuel Goldwyn presents] Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky, The Henry King [production] The Magic Flame."
Date:: [1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The original Los Angeles County Courthouse was built in 1891 on Poundcake Hill on the corner of Temple and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. The Victorian-style red sandstone building was declared unsafe after a 1933 earthquake, and demolished in 1936. Standing next to it was the Hall of Records.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Crowds line both sides of the street and gather in front of the old Los Angeles County Courthouse during the arraignment or trial of William Edward Hickman, confessed kidnapper and murderer of Marion Parker, age 12. Photographed in the vicinity of Broadway and Temple streets (current City Hall location). The Hall of Records stands on the left.
Date:: [1927-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: After an earthquake in 1933, the old Courthouse was condemned and set for destruction. The top floors were cleared in 1935 and it was demolished in 1936.
Date:: November 12, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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