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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.
The United States Postal Service operates the Civic Center Van Nuys Post Office at 6200 Van Nuys Boulevard in Van Nuys (closed and moved outside the Van Nuys civic center to 6531 Van Nuys Blvd, Van Nuys, CA 91401) [22] and the Van Nuys Post Office at 15701 Sherman Way in the Lake Balboa neighborhood in Los Angeles, west of Van Nuys. [23] [24] [25]
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 ...
Federal Employees' Distributing Company, known as Fedco, was a membership department store chain that operated in Southern California from 1948 to 1999. History [ edit ]
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The Suburban Home Company laid out plans for roads and the towns of Van Nuys, Reseda (Marian) and Canoga Park (Owensmouth). The rural areas were annexed into the city of Los Angeles in 1915. [22] [23] From about 1920 until his death, his company Whiltley Oil and Refining engaged in oil drilling in California.