Kansas Sebastian
03e Fletcher Bowron Square - Los Angeles Star Site (E)
California Historical Landmark No. 789
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Los Angeles Mall, 1973-74
Stanton and Stockwell; Cornell S Bridgers, Troller and Hazlett, Landscape Architects
East side of North Main Steets between East First and Aliso Streets
The civic addition consists of a six-level mall, a four-level undergrown parking garage, and three buildings: City Hall East, City Hall South, and a small Children's Museum. The skyway which connects the mall to the original City Hall is as dull as the other buildings. The two objects which make a noble, but vain attempt to lift all of this out of the mundane is Millard Sheets wonderful mural at the Main Street entrance to City Hall East (Stanton and Stockwell, 1973-74) and Josph Young's Triforium (1975), a sixty-foot fountain of light and music. The landscaping is well carried out, but now ten years after it was finished, it is all beginning to look a bit tired. Even the fountains run only itermittently.
Architecture in Los Angeles: A Compleat Guide
David Gebhard and Robert Winters
Downtown, Civic Center, No. 8.
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NO. 789 SITE OF THE LOS ANGELES STAR - Southern California's first newspaper, The Los Angeles Star, was founded in this block on May 17, 1851 and for many years exerted a major influence upon this part of the state. Suspended temporarily from 1864 to 1868, it continued later as an effective voice of the people until its final termination date in 1879.
Location: Fletcher Bowron Square, 300 block of N Main, between Temple and Aliso Sts, Los Angeles
California State Parks, Office of Historic Preservation (OHP): ohp.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=21427
03e Fletcher Bowron Square - Los Angeles Star Site (E)
California Historical Landmark No. 789
__________
Los Angeles Mall, 1973-74
Stanton and Stockwell; Cornell S Bridgers, Troller and Hazlett, Landscape Architects
East side of North Main Steets between East First and Aliso Streets
The civic addition consists of a six-level mall, a four-level undergrown parking garage, and three buildings: City Hall East, City Hall South, and a small Children's Museum. The skyway which connects the mall to the original City Hall is as dull as the other buildings. The two objects which make a noble, but vain attempt to lift all of this out of the mundane is Millard Sheets wonderful mural at the Main Street entrance to City Hall East (Stanton and Stockwell, 1973-74) and Josph Young's Triforium (1975), a sixty-foot fountain of light and music. The landscaping is well carried out, but now ten years after it was finished, it is all beginning to look a bit tired. Even the fountains run only itermittently.
Architecture in Los Angeles: A Compleat Guide
David Gebhard and Robert Winters
Downtown, Civic Center, No. 8.
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NO. 789 SITE OF THE LOS ANGELES STAR - Southern California's first newspaper, The Los Angeles Star, was founded in this block on May 17, 1851 and for many years exerted a major influence upon this part of the state. Suspended temporarily from 1864 to 1868, it continued later as an effective voice of the people until its final termination date in 1879.
Location: Fletcher Bowron Square, 300 block of N Main, between Temple and Aliso Sts, Los Angeles
California State Parks, Office of Historic Preservation (OHP): ohp.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=21427