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EXTERIOR, NORTH SIDE SHOWING OFFICE FLOORS - Richfield Oil Building, 555 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
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Morgan, Walls and Clements
Atlantic Richfield Company
Patigian, Haig
Title
EXTERIOR, NORTH SIDE SHOWING OFFICE FLOORS - Richfield Oil Building, 555 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
Description
North facade.
Depicted place California; Los Angeles County; Los Angeles
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
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,67-7
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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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Notes
  • Significance: An excellent example of the "Modern Style" of the 1920's, a short-lived heroic style with roots in late Art Nouveau and German Expressionism with emphasis on masses rather than volumes.
  • A more direct influence on the forms came from two New York buildings whose profile was determined by the 1916 Zoning Law requiring setbacks for multi-story buildings.
  • The Richfield Building, by Morgan, Walls, & Clements, was one of the best examples of the 20's, which exuberantly integrated the arts into architecture. It reflects the style growing out of the New York setback laws of 1916, which fruited, then died in the 30's - a style combining Cubism, applied art and exterior color.  ::*Like Hood's American Radiator Building in New York, the skin of the Richfield was black and gold.
  • This set of drawings is based on the architects' original working drawings of 1928-29, supplemented and corrected according to photographic records.  ::*Demolition of the building was begun in November, 1968.
  • Survey number: HABS CA-1987
  • Building/structure dates: 1929 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1931 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1934 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1969 Demolished
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca0250.photos.012407p
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Object location 34° 03′ 07.99″ N, 118° 14′ 34.01″ W  Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap info

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