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The Van Nuys Government Center (aka Van Nuys Civic Center or San Fernando Valley Administrative Center [1]) is a 17.3-acre (70,000 m 2) [2] cluster of buildings in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles that houses various local, state and federal government offices and services.
Horse-drawn streetcar in front of the first Los Angeles federal courthouse and post office, c. 1892 James C. Corman Federal Building at Van Nuys Government Center. This is a list of Los Angeles federal buildings, meaning past or present United States federal buildings located within the city of Los Angeles.
Van Nuys City Hall, built in 1932 originally as the Valley Municipal Building, serves various municipal services for the San Fernando Valley residents of the City of Los Angeles such as meeting chambers and public service offices and was dedicated as a Historic-Cultural Monument in 1968. Its 8 stories has over 49,000 square feet.
Capital Brutalism, an exhibit on view through February 17 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., amply demonstrates why. Brutalist buildings are unornamented concrete hulks.
Federal buildings in the United States house offices of the United States government that provide services to state and city level population centers. These federal buildings are often literally named Federal Building, with this moniker displayed on the property; they may share real estate with federal courthouses.
Los Angeles' 1949 master plan called for branch administrative centers throughout the rapidly expanding city. [2] In addition to the main civic center downtown, there is the West Los Angeles Civic Center in the Westside (built between 1957 and 1965) and the Van Nuys Civic Center in the San Fernando Valley, as well as a neighborhood city hall in San Pedro.
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Beaux-Arts hotel built in 1896 by Issac Van Nuys was the city's first to provide a telephone in every room; designed by Morgan & Walls: 289: Fire Station No. 30: 1401 S. Central Ave. Downtown Los Angeles: Fire station built in 1942, designed by James Backus; it was the city's first segregated African-American firehouse; remained segregated for ...