Inyo County Courthouse, Independence, [1923-1939]

Item Overview

Title

Inyo County Courthouse, Independence, [1923-1939]

Architect

Weeks, W. H. (William Henry), 1864-1936

Date Created

[between 1922-1939]

Date

1922/1939

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

View of the 4th Courthouse on Inyo County, a 3-story building with 4 pillars at portico, wide steps, and flagpole, with street in foreground, mountains in background. Sprinklers water the lawn while a man stands in front of the building, watching.
After the first two courthouses were lost in an earthquake and a fire, respectively, and the third turned out to be too small, William H. Weeks, the leading architect on the Pacific Coast was commissioned to build the fourth and present courthouse for Inyo County, Independence, California. The building was completed in 1923 and was an example of monumental Neoclassical Revival public architecture. The casings, trim, panelling and door of the Superior courtroom are made of oak. In 1998, the courthouse was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in recognition of "Integrity of Feeling and Association."

Caption

Text on negative sleeve: Inyo County Courthouse
Hadnwritten on negative: Inyo Co. Courthouse

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Inyo County Courthouse (Independence, Calif.)

Location

Inyo County (Calif.)

Longitude

36.803481

Latitude

-118.200105

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Courthouses--California--Independence
Historic buildings--California--Independence