File:AXIAL VIEW, WEST ELEVATION - Los Angeles Public Library, 630 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA HABS CAL,19-LOSAN,65-9.tif

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AXIAL VIEW, WEST ELEVATION - Los Angeles Public Library, 630 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
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Rand, Marvin

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Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor
Winslow, Carleton Monroe
Title
AXIAL VIEW, WEST ELEVATION - Los Angeles Public Library, 630 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
Depicted place California; Los Angeles County; Los Angeles
Date 1971
date QS:P571,+1971-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS CAL,19-LOSAN,65-9
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Designed by noted architect Bertram G. Goodhue, in 1924, the Los Angeles Public Library shows influences from the beaux-arts, the art deco idiom of the time, and of the California missions. Along with Goodhue's Nebraska State Capitol of the same period, the building takes design elements from various periods, but is overall an extremely original, effective composition. Arts were integrated into the design in the form of sculpture, tile and terr-cotta work, and mosaics. / The Los Angeles Public Library, designed by Bertram Goodhue (1924) with Carlton M. Winslow, Sr. as supervising architect, combines Beaux Arts elements with plain surfaces and detailing. The building is particularly noted for its pleasant park setting, and oasis in the midst of Central City's high rise development. It rises from this park to its pyramidal capped central tower which is finished with shimmering mosaic suns on blue backgrounds. Within, the severe forms of the domed rotunda are relieved by the large painted murals and stencil work. The building abounds in stylized Egyptian sculpture and wall paintings.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-230
  • Survey number: HABS CA-1937
  • Building/structure dates: 1926 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1982 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca0235.photos.012387p
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Object location34° 03′ 07.99″ N, 118° 14′ 34.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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