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"Checkmate," by Ed Massey. Massey's sculptures have appeared in print media including in The Wall Street Journal, [7] and Fortune Magazine. [8]The Wedding Dress (1998) was created for Massey's bride, Dawn Harris, a 200 lb (91 kg) sculpted dress with a five-foot train and 1,060 roses draped on a steel mesh form.
Trustee Building was designed by Parkinson and Bergstrom, the duo responsible for many buildings on Broadway, including Bullock's Building, Yorkshire Hotel, Metropolitan Building, and Broadway Mart Center.
The building is less than a mile from Staples Center and LA Live. It is visible from both interstate 10 (Santa Monica Freeway) and State Route 110 (Harbor Freeway). The structure is located at 1816 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California, 90015. Figueroa Street was a part of the old US Highway 6.
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On November 1, 1975, the CHSSC held its founding meeting at Cathay Bank in Los Angeles, California. Its key attendees included Paul Louie, William Mason, and Paul De Falla. [6] Its mission is: To bring together people with a mutual interest in the important history and historical role of Chinese and Chinese Americans in Southern California;
[4] In 1994, Salvatore Settis, a professor of the history of classical art and archeology in Italy, became the director of the Center. [6] By 1996, the Center's name had been changed to "Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities", [7] and by 1999 it was known simply as "Getty Research Institute". [8]
The Merritt Building was built by Reid & Reid in 1915 and was named after its owner Hulett C. Merritt.Merritt originally wanted the building to contain 23 stories at a height of 233 feet, but Los Angeles City Council refused to waive the city's 180-foot building height ordinance, and so Merritt built a 9-story (plus one below-ground story), 144-foot building instead.
The library, completed in the mid-1990s, reflected a shift to designs closer to earlier Romanesque Revival architecture.It was named in honor of Thomas E. Leavey, the founder of Farmers Insurance Group, and his wife, Dorothy Leavey.