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AKA: Times-Mirror Building #2, Los Angeles, CA
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings
Designers: Caukin and Haas, Architects (firm); Krempel, John Paul, Architect (firm); Eugene L. Caukin (architect); Solomon Irmscher Haas (architect); John Paul Krempel (architect)
Dates: constructed 1887, demolished 1910
3 stories
Overview
Completed in 1887, the Richardsonian Romanesque Times Building #2 occupied a site on Old Fort Street, later known as Broadway. The Los Angeles Times began publication in 1881.
Building History
The notable but short-lived architectural firm of Caukin and Haas designed the Los Angeles Times Building #2.
Alteration
Architect John Krempel (1861-1933) designed a three-story office building addition, located on the site of Times-Mirror Company Building #1, in 1903.
Demolition
The Los Angeles Times Building #2 was destroyed in a bomb blast that occurred on 10/01/1910. A bomb blast destroyed part of the Los Angeles Times's building at 1st Street and Broadway on 10/01/1910. The explosion which killed 21 people, was attributed to two labor unionists, James and Joseph McNamara, who resented the Times's rabidly anti-union editorial positions.
PCAD id: 1866
