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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.
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).
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]
Palmdale is a city in northern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California. The city lies in the Antelope Valley of Southern California. The San Gabriel Mountains separate Palmdale from the Los Angeles Basin to the south. On August 24, 1962, Palmdale became the first city in Antelope Valley.
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 ...
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]
The U.S. Post Office in San Pedro, California, is a historic Streamline Moderne post office built in 1936. Designed by supervising architect Louis A. Simon with architects Gordon Kaufmann and W. Horace Austin, the San Pedro Post Office was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The building also formerly served as a U.S ...
The United States Post Office in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, also known as Hollywood Station, is an active U.S. post office located at 1615 Wilcox, between Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards. It is on the National Register of Historic Places .