PCAD - Standard Oil Company of California, Office Building, Los Angeles, CA

605 West Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1400

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Olympic, between Hope and Flower.

Kelham did a number of office buildings for petroleum companies in California during the 1920s, including the Shell Oil Building, San Francisco, CA, the Standard Oil Building, San Francisco, CA, and this one. The style is a derivation from Renaissance Northern Italian architecture; Kelham also mined Northern Italian architecture for details on buildings at UCLA later in the decade;

PCAD id: 1855

Publications

"Standard Oil Building, Los Angeles: George W. Kelham, architect", Architectural Digest, 2: 2, 59, 1926. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 228, 1994.

Standard Oil Company of California, Office Building, Los Angeles, CA (1923-1924)

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