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Order Number	00111428
Title	Los Angeles County Hall of Justice
Photographer	Olmos, Tavo.
Collection ID	Los Angeles County Building Survey Collection
Location/Accession	GPC_b97_f1_i12.4
Date	2005
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 13 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.; Photographs taken for Historic American Landscapes Survey which includes documentation.; Photograph on sheet with 3 other images.
Historical Data	Located at 211 W. Temple Street, The Los Angeles County Hall of Justice was built in 1925, designed by the Allied Architects Association, a collective of prominent architects whose other contributions include City Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. The historic fourteen-story building was built in the Beaux Arts and Italian Renaissance style with concrete floor slabs, a steel frame structure, and an exterior of white granite. The Hall of Justice is the oldest surviving government building in the civic center area and was the nation's first consolidated judicial facility housing the Los Angeles County courts, Los Angeles County Coroner, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office, the Los Angeles County District Attorney and the Los Angeles County jail, until it was red-tagged and vacated after damage from the Northridge Earthquake in 1994. It was host to many infamous trials including those for Sirhan Sirhan and Charles Manson and housed such notables as Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Errol Flynn, Charlie Chaplin and Robert Mitchum. Autopsies were also performed here including those for Marilyn Monroe and Robert F. Kennedy. After the Northridge earthquake, many attempts had been made to renovate and re-open the Hall of Justice. It is currently undergoing a major $234-million renovation and, once open, will again house offices for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and the District Attorney.
Description	Interior view of the main lobby west staircase on the second floor of the Los Angeles County Hall of Justice, looking west. With terrazzo floors, marble columns, and decorative ceilings, the main lobby conveys a sense of grandeur and attention to detail and is arguably the centerpiece of the building.
Publisher	Historic American Landscapes Survey
Subject	Los Angeles County Hall of Justice. Public buildings--California--Los Angeles. Municipal buildings--California--Los Angeles. Courthouses--California--Los Angeles. Jails--California--Los Angeles. Eclecticism in architecture--California--Los Angeles. Renaissance revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles--Italian influences. Interiors--California--Los Angeles. Lobbies--California--Los Angeles. Loggias--California--Los Angeles. Staircases--California--Los Angeles. Columns--California--Los Angeles. Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.). Allied Architects Association of Los Angeles. Positive Image Photographic Services.
Format	Photographic prints
Credits	Photographs taken for Historic American Buildings Survey or the Historic Landscapes Survey: documentation is on file.
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	Los Angeles County Building Survey Photo Collection