University of Southern California (USC), Doheny, Edward L., Memorial Library, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA (1931-1932)

Structure Type: built works - public buildings - schools - university buildings; built works - social and civic buildings - libraries

Designers: Cram and Ferguson, Architects (firm); Lunden, Samuel Eugene, FAIA, Architect (firm); Ralph Adams Cram (architect); Frank W. Ferguson (architect); Samuel Eugene Lunden (architect)

Dates: constructed 1931-1932

4 stories

click to open gallery Exterior view of the Doheny Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2017; photo by Nina Mross, 03/29/2017, reproduced by permission
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3550 Trousdale Parkway
University of Southern California Campus, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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Building History

Doheny Library was later commission in the Office of Cram and Ferguson, and their last in California. They collaborated with the Pasadena architect Samuel E. Lunden (1897-1995), who supervised the design of its interiors and produced the building's working drawings.

Alteration

The administration of USC enlarged the Doheny Memorial Library in the 1960s from about 500,000 volumes to 1,000,000 volumes.

PCAD id: 6663

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