Building History

This brick office building for the Title Insurance and Trust Company was located in the heart of Los Angeles's central business district in 1901, on the corner of New High Street and Franklin Street (what had been called Jail Street).

Alteration

In 1901, the Los Angeles Herald noted that the company was making changes to its headquarters: "The Title Insurance and Trust company is making some handsome and substantial improvements in its three-story brick building on the corner of Franklin and New High streets with a view to expanding its affairs and engaging actively in the trust business, which is a new departure in the business world of this city appurtenant to real estate matters, and one that promises decisive benefits. One feature of the trust business will be the handling of large realty interests in trust, which from the benefits shown by the example of its operation in other large cities by corporations of this class, must make it a valuable adjunct to the business of this community and one in which the real estate people will be more or less interested." (See "Real Estate and Building," Los Angeles Herald, vol. XXVII, no. 141, 02/19/1901, p. 13.)

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