Imperial County Courthouse, El Centro, [1924?]

Title: Imperial County Courthouse, El Centro, [1924?]
Architect: Swearingen, Ralph Emerson, 1882-1965
Wells, Don W. (Don William), 1884-1942
Date Created: [1924?]
Date: 1924
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: View of the Imperial County courthouse, a 3-story stone building with columns at entrance, with street and parked car in foreground
Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, August 28, 1927, “San Diego to El Centro Road Reveals Gain, Widening Mountain Springs Grade Brings Results Indicative of Benefit From Good Highway.” ... it adds another link to the paved portion of United States Route No. 80, extending from San Diego to Savannah, Ga. ...
The Imperial County Courthouse, a Beaux-Arts style completed in 1924, was designed by architects Ralph Swearingen and Don W. Wells.
Caption: Handwritten at edge of negative: County court house Elcentro 2 11
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, El Centro

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Imperial County (Calif.). Superior Court
Location: El Centro (Calif.)
Longitude: 32.792857
Latitude: -115.564064
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Courthouses--California--El Centro
Neoclassicism (Architecture)--California--El Centro
Government
Historic buildings--California--El Centro
Legal

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: 0411
uclamss_1429_0411
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002d9p9d
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