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City Hall, Santa Monica, Calif.
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City Hall, Santa Monica, Calif.
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Description
Identifier
clloy_017
Title
City
Hall
,
Santa
Monica
,
Calif
.
Creator
Unknown
Date Published
circa
1947
Subject (Topic)
City
halls--California--Santa
Monica
;
Municipal
buildings--California--Santa
Monica
Subject (Name)
City
Hall
(Santa
Monica
,
Calif.)
Subject (Place)
Santa
Monica
(Calif.)
Type
image
Form/Genre
Postcards
Physical Description
1
postcard
:
b&w
;
9
x
14
cm
.
Institution
Department
of
Archives
and
Special
Collections
,
William
H
.
Hannon
Library
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Country of Creation
US
Copyright Status
public
domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Publisher
Pacific
Novelty
Co
Place of Publication
San
Francisco
&
Los
Angeles
Language
eng
Description
View
of
Santa
Monica's
City
Hall
, on the
corner
of
Fourth
Street
and
Oregon
Avenue
Historical Background
Built
in the
early
1900s
,
Santa
Monica's
City
Hall
was
located
on the
northwest
corner
of
Fourth
Street
and
Oregon
Avenue
(later
Santa
Monica
Boulevard)
. The
two-story
mission-style
structure
was
designed
by
architect
C.H
.
Brown
and
built
by
contractor
H.X
.
Goetz
. The
building
served
as the
headquarters
for the
city's
municipal
government
from
1903
to
1938
. In
1938
City
Hall
was
relocated
to a
new
building
at
1685
Main
Street
, a
structure
built
as
one
of the
Works
Progress
Administration
(WPA)
projects
. The
original
city
hall
building
was
sold
to
James
E
.
MacMurray
in
1938
for
$167,666
and was
torn
down
sometime
before
1947
.
Publisher's Identifier
Publisher's serial number: F166
Additional Notes
Approximate
date
from
postmark
.
Source
Werner
von
Boltenstern
Postcard
Collection
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