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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.
This building was preceded by a prior Los Angeles federal building opened in 1892. The second federal building was made of “red sandstone on a white granite base” and cost $500,000. [2] Upon completion, the six-story building [3] housed a post office, Southern District of California courtrooms, [4] customs offices, and revenue offices. [2]
Therefore, from its completion in 1928 until finally surpassed by the topping off of Union Bank Plaza in 1966, City Hall was the tallest building in Los Angeles and shared the skyline with only a few structures such as the Continental Building, the only property built taller than 150 feet (46 m) prior to the ordinance, and the Richfield Tower ...
In 1915, Palmdale's first newspaper, the Palmdale Post, was published. Today it is called the Antelope Valley Press. [20] In 1921, the first major motor vehicle link between Palmdale and Los Angeles was completed, Mint Canyon/Lancaster Road, later designated U.S. Route 6. Completion of this road caused the local agricultural industry to ...
A Los Angeles County Department of Public Works sign along 7th Street in downtown Los Angeles. The department was formed in 1985 in a consolidation of the county Road Department, the Flood Control District (in charge of dams, spreading grounds, and channels), and the County Engineer (in charge of building safety, land survey, waterworks).
Beverly Hills Post Office (BHPO) is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, that is adjacent to the city of Beverly Hills.Because the United States Postal Service in Beverly Hills serves the neighborhood, residents have a Beverly Hills mailing address with zip code 90210, while other wealthy neighborhoods Bel Air and Holmby Hills have Los Angeles mailing addresses.
Accordingly, the Postal Service Board of Governors in 1984 approved the construction of a new $151 million general post office in South Los Angeles. [11] Almost 50 years after Terminal Annex became the city's main mail-processing facility, the new processing facility in South Central opened in 1989. The site is currently used as a data center. [15]
The building, located at the corner of Main Street and Winston Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets, [4] was used for about nine years, [5] from 1892 to 1901, to house the Southern District of California, [6] a U.S. post office, and the customs office. The building was partially demolished in 1901; Court moved to the Tajo Building in the ...