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Title	Plans of L.A.'s first City Hall found: Sarah Day shows 72-year-old drawing of building, 1956
Title (Alternate)	1st City Hall records located, 1956
Description	"Under dust in the file room. 1st City hall records located.Historical records of the first Los Angeles City Hall, approved by the City Council on July 11, 1884, were found in a dusty file room in the present City hall by William R. Blakely, director of the bureau of public buildings. The glazed linen cloth drawings discovered contained both floor plans and elevations. Records showed the first City Hall occupied a lot 98 by 92 feet on the northwest corner of Second and Spring streets. The building was three stories tall with two towers, one for a clock and one for a bell to sound alarms. Designed by Architect R. B. Young it was rococo and baroque with French and Flemish motif. Occupied in 1855 [sic.] - it was first occupied in 1885 and one of the first ordinances adopted in the new City Hall outlawed the carrying of a deadly weapons without a permit - proof that the city was growing up, Blakely said. Another law passed that year prohibited the keeping of more than two cows in the area bounded by Main, Sixth, Bunker Hill and Temple streets. Those were modest days and the library on the third floor had separate reading rooms for "Ladies" and "Gents." Los Angeles had 11, 183 residents in 1880 and by 1890 it had grown to 50,395. Plans of L.A.'s first City Hall found: Sarah Day shows 72-year-old drawing of building" -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated "November 23, 1956". Verso dated, "November 23, 1956".
Subject (File Heading)	Los Angeles -- Buildings -- City Hall -- Old
Geographic Subject (Roadway)	200 North Spring Street
Geographic Subject (City or Populated Place)	Los Angeles
Geographic Subject (County)	Los Angeles
Geographic Subject (State)	California
Geographic Subject (Country)	USA
Geographic Coordinates	-118.24156,34.05505; -118.24149,34.05515; -118.24235,34.05204; -118.24366,34.05458; -118.24156,34.05505
Coverage date	circa 1956-11-23
Publisher (of the Digital Version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1956-11-23
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
Format (aat)	photographic prints photographs
Barcode	3-1275-02805-8270
Original Filename	EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-625
Print Box	Subjects 319
Legacy Record ID	examiner-m2834
Part of subcollection	Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
Part of collection	Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights	University of Southern California
Access Conditions	Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu; phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343
Repository Name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository Email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-625
Archival file	examiner_Volume124/EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-625.tiff

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