Los Angeles Herald Examiner Building

Architect
Julia Morgan
Year
1914
Style
Spanish Colonial Revival
City
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Building
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The Los Angeles Herald Examiner Building at 146 West 11th Street was built in 1914 to designs by Julia Morgan, in the Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style, as the headquarters of one of the city's major newspapers. It was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #178 in 1977.

the style

The Herald Examiner Building was designed in the Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style, a regional idiom lending civic weight to a major Los Angeles newspaper's headquarters when it was built in 1914.

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the architect

Julia Morgan was a historically important architect; the Herald Examiner Building is one of her credited Los Angeles commissions, designed in the Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style for the newspaper's headquarters.

significance

The building was individually designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #178 on August 17, 1977.

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