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The building actually is not located on municipal Los Angeles land, but in a small (0.90-square-mile (2.3 km 2)), unincorporated area of Los Angeles County enclosed by the city, known as unincorporated Sawtelle. Construction on the Wilshire Federal Building began in 1968 and was completed in 1969. [4] It is 79.43 metres (260.6 ft) high. [4]
United States Courthouse (First Street, Los Angeles), the newest federal courthouse in Los Angeles, located 350 W. First St., open since 2016 [2] Wilshire Federal Building, 11000 Wilshire Blvd., NRHP, opened 1969 [3] Edward R. Roybal Federal Building and United States Courthouse, 255 E Temple St., opened 1996
A major stand-alone federal office building in the area is the 19-story Wilshire Federal Building [38] (completed 1969) at 11000 Wilshire Blvd, Westwood, Los Angeles. The federal building is the most prominent symbol of federal power in the Los Angeles area, and is thus a popular site for protests against government policies.
Wilshire Boulevard originated as one of the central pathways constructed by the Tongva tribes residing in the region prior to the exploration of the conquistadores. [6] At the time of the founding of Los Angeles, Wilshire Boulevard was one of the main arteries connecting the largest Tongva village in the area, then known as Yaanga, which eventually became Union Station, to the Pacific Ocean.
Wilshire Grand Center is a 1,100-foot (335.3 m) skyscraper in the financial district of downtown Los Angeles, California, occupying the entire city block between Wilshire Boulevard and 7th, Figueroa, and Francisco streets. Completed in 2017, it is the tallest building (if including the spire) in the United States west of Chicago.
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Their combined assets of $500 million then doubled in the next four years, surprising $1 billion mark in 1963. Two years later, Cal Fed occupied as its headquarters the lower half of the 27-story California Federal Plaza at 5670 Wilshire Blvd. The building, designed by architect Charles Luckman, was briefly the tallest high-rise in the city.
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