PCAD - Superior Oil Company, Office Building, Los Angeles, CA

AKA: Bank of California, Office Building, Los Angeles, CA; The Standard, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA

Exterior view of the Superior Oil Company Office Building, Los Angeles, CA, 2008; image from Los Angeles, Wikimedia.org

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550 South Flower Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071-2501

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Northeast corner of Sixth Street and South Flower Street.

Architect, Claude Beelman (1884-1963), designed the Superior Oil Company Building for William Myron Keck (1880–1964), its founder and President. Superior Oil, once the largest independent producer of petroleum in the US, was purchased by Mobil Oil Corporation in 03/1984 for $5.7 billion.

Building renovated by hotelier, Andre Balazs, owner of The Mercer in New York, NY, The Standard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, and The Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, CA;

PCAD id: 816

Publications

Ypma, Herbert, Hip Hotels, 80-87, 2003. "Superior Oil Co. Gets Permit for 12-Story Building", Los Angeles Times, A1, 06/17/1955. "Big Downtown Project", Los Angeles Times, F1, 10/30/1955.

Superior Oil Company, Office Building, Los Angeles, CA (1955)

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