Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings

Designers: Walker and Eisen, Architects (firm); Frank Bowers (muralist); Percy Augustus Eisen (architect); Arthur Prunier (muralist); Albert Raymond Walker (architect)

Dates: constructed 1935, demolished 1972

Exterior view of the Sunkist Building (left), Los Angeles, 1939; from the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), Works Progress Administration (WPA) Collection, Item #LAPL00019043

Exterior view of the Sunkist Building, Los Angeles, c. 1935; from the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), Security Pacific National Bank Collection, Item #LAPL00019072

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707 South Flower Street and West 5th Street
Downtown, Los Angeles, CA 90071-2003

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The Sunkist Building occupied the northeast corner of South Flower Street and West 5th Street;

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Demolition

The Sunkist Building was torn down during 01/1972.

PCAD id: 294

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Publications

Hadley, Homer, "New Home of the California Fruit Growers Exchange", Architect & Engineer, 8-14, front cover, 2/1936. "Sunkist Building Murals", California Arts and Architecture, 14-17, 2/1936. "Sunkist Building Murals, 02/1936", California Arts and Architecture, 16-17, 02/1936. Schippers, Donald J., "Walker and Eisen: twenty years of Los Angeles architecture, 1920-1940", Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, 46: 389, Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 222, 1994. Hebert, Ray, "Sunkist Building being torn down", Los Angeles Times, Part II: 1+, 1/19/1972. "How 'Sunkist' Building will look when completed", Los Angeles Times, part I: 14, 04/21/1935. "Constructor of Sunkist Building will raze it", Los Angeles Times, Section K: 11, 11/7/1971.