The Automobile Club of Southern California Building (Los Angeles, California) | interesting place, historic landmark

 interesting place, historic landmark

2601 South Figueroa St.
Los Angeles, CA 90007

Date of Construction: 1921.
Architect: Hunt and Burns, Roland E. Coate.

Until recently, this three-story Spanish Colonial Revival office building served as the headquarters for the largest Automobile Club in the country. The building reflects the importance of the automobile to Southern California. A century old Moreton Bay fig tree is placed at the Figueroa street entrance. Its drive-through courtyard displays plaques from each California county, and the interior rotunda features terrazzo tile imported from Mexico. In many ways, the building is a counterpart to Bullock's Wilshire (now the Southwestern University Law Library) on Wilshire Blvd. noted as the first automobile-oriented department store. The Bullocks building is about the same distance from downtown Los Angeles as is the Automobile Association.

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More information here: bigorangelandmarks.blogspot.com/2007/10/no-72-automobil...