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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
I'm not sure when the façade lost its detail, such as LAUGHLIN over the door.
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I think the details must have been scraped off during the 60's remodel when the building's base was tiled.
This google maps view shows the relationship between Parkinson's 1897 building and Harrison Albright's 1905 Annex that connected the building with Hill Street, including what's left of the roof garden between the two which was part of the premises of the LAPL when they occupied two floors of the Annex between 1906 and 1908.
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The Children's Reading Room at the Laughlin Annex,
French doors to the roof garden at left:
(If this photo is identified correctly, I cannot
explain the arch-top windows)
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The present Hill Street facade:
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Broadway frontage with the Million Dollar Theater to the north:
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Hipster-free interior:
http://www.you-are-here.com
http://www.grandcentralsquare.com
Does anyone know where, in this pair of buildings, Frank Lloyd Wright's office was while he was building his concrete-block houses here in the 1920's?
Before the Laughlin Building. This 1890 shot shows the Fort Street Methodist Episcopal Church, replaced by the Homer Laughlin Building in 1916:
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BTW, below is the first Laughlin Building, in East Liverpool, Ohio, soon after Homer Laughlin sold out to move to Los Angeles.
The Homer Laughlin China Co is still going strong and has manufactured 1/3 of all the china ever sold in the US to date, including their famous Fiesta ware.
http://www.hlcdinnerware.com/about/history