McKee and Company building, Los Angeles, 1956

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Photograph of a drawing. "25-story skyscraper for downtown Los Angeles will be midtown, but exact site undivulged yet. -- Skyscraper will cost $10 million -- Twenty-five stories will be the height of an office building which may well be the first commercial 'skyscraper' permitted in downtown Los Angeles as a result of the charter amendment voted on November 7. -- Site of the $10,000,000 structure will be announced soon, according to Donald H. McKee, head of McKee and Company, which will own it. -- Plans for the skyscraper were developed in the architectural offices of Heitschmidt & Thompson, AIA, headed by Earl T. Heitschmidt, FAIA, well know for civic work as well as for designing many notable Southland structures. -- Offices for 3000 -- The structure, concrete and steel, will contain 340,000 square feet of air-conditioned, rentable area, says Heischmidt. Three basement levels, plus the first three floorsa bove street level, will provide parking for 600 cars with ramps on two streets. Office space provides for approximately 3000 people. -- The structure will set back 15 feet from the property line on the principal side, but flush with the line on the other three sides. At the third-floor level, there will be a 35-foot setback on one side, 40 feet on another and 13 feet on the fourth side, according to Whiting S. Thompson, co-designer. -- Ceramic facing -- Exterior facing of ceramic veneer will be used at the corners of the building. These will be shear walls for earthquake resistance. A granite facing will be used for the first three floors on the ma"... -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 2 December 1956.

Asset Metadata

Title McKee and Company building, Los Angeles, 1956

Subject Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- M (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), McKee and Company building (manmade features), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1956-12-02

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w (aacr2), art (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961 (subcollection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1956-12-02

Creator Heitschmidt & Thompson (architect)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m4659

Identifier 3-1275-02805-1622 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-185 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-91148 (legacy record id), examiner-m4659 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-185 (original filename), Subjects 318 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 91148

Unique identifier UC11733430

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-185.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 6.1 in × 9.2 in at 300dpi
15.5 cm × 23.4 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

Description The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

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