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Order Number	00092790
Title	Southern California Edison Building, completion
Studio	Mushet Photography.
Collection ID	Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Location/Accession	GPC_b27_f1_i46
Date	1930
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 20 cm. on sheet 28 x 20 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	Designed in 1929 by Allison & Allison, the Southern California Edison Company building was erected on the northwest corner of Fifth Street and Grand Avenue by the P. J. Walker Company. Occupying a site of 175 x 175 feet, and at a height of 222 feet, the fourteen-story building was about one-half the height of the Los Angeles City Hall. It is estimated that about 400,000 inches of bead were required to hold in place the 3500 tons of structural steel, fabricated by Consolidated Steel Corporation, and that every column and girder in the steel frame was braced and cross-braced with steel webs and plates, riveted and welded in such a way that the finished building would have a resistance to external forces not approached by any other type of construction. The frame was designed so that the building would be capable of withstanding a general conflagration, a major hurricane or an earthquake of large intensity. The steel-framed building follows a classically inspired Art Deco design, with the lower three stories made of solid limestone, and the upper stories and central tower faced with buff-colored terra cotta. On the facade, the spandrels contain a cubic Art Deco pattern, which is repeated in the central tower, lobby floor and elevator ceilings. The cost of the building, together with the value of the site, was estimated at approximately $3,575,000. It opened on March 20, 1931 as the Southern California Edison Company corporate headquarters.
Description	View shows the Southern California Edison Company, located on the corner of Fifth Street and Grand Avenue. The frame of the building has been completed and the outer portion is beginning to take shape, with limestone being used toward the bottom and terra cotta for the rest. A pedestrian walkway has been put in place along the sidewalk for safety purposes. Adjacent on the right is the Sherwood Apartment house, and on the left is the Engstrum Hotel Apartment building. Photograph dated August 1, 1930.
Subject	Engstrum Hotel Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.). Sherwood Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.). Southern California Edison Company. One Bunker Hill Building (Los Angeles, Calif.). Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles. Building construction--California--Los Angeles. Apartment hotels--California--Los Angeles. Apartment houses--California--Los Angeles. Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles. Building sites--California--Los Angeles. Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection