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210 W Temple St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
210 W Temple St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
The Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center is the county courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. It is located at 210 West Temple Street, between Broadway and Spring Street.Originally known as the Criminal Courts Building, in 2002 it was renamed the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, after Clara S. Foltz, the first female lawyer on the west coast of the United States .The building houses the main offices of the Los Angeles County District Attorney and the Los Angeles County Public Defender.Notable Trials Richard Ramirez murder trial O.J. Simpson murder trial Phil Spector murder trial Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt – 2008 murder trial BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant trial Trial of Dr. Conrad Murray for the death of Michael JacksonSecurity MeasuresHigh profile trials are held on the Ninth Floor of the building, with a secondary screening area in addition to the main screening at the ground floor level. Furthermore, the Eighth and Tenth floors are inaccessible from the public elevators and stairwells.
The United States Court House in Downtown Los Angeles is a Moderne style building that originally served as both a post office and a courthouse. The building was designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood and Louis A. Simon, and construction was completed in 1940.The United States Court House initially housed court facilities for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, until the District was redrawn in 1966. It thereafter functioned as a court house with judges from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. There is another federal court house in the Roybal Building in Downtown Los Angeles. In February 2006, the U.S. Court House and Post Office was added to the National Register of Historic Places.Building historyBuilt between 1937 and 1940 by the Federal Public Works Administration, it was the third federal building constructed in Los Angeles. The first, constructed between 1889 and 1892, housed the post office, U.S. District Court, and various federal agencies, but it soon proved inadequate. A larger structure was built between 1906 and 1910 at the corner of Main and Temple Streets. The population of Los Angeles grew rapidly in the early part of the twentieth century, and a larger building was needed to serve the courts and federal agencies. The second federal building was razed in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration to clear the site for the existing courthouse.
The Edward R. Roybal Federal Building and United States Courthouse is a United States federal courthouse of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, in the Civic Center district of Los Angeles, California. It is located on Temple Street in Downtown Los Angeles.The building was completed in January 1992 and is named for long-serving United States Congressman Edward R. Roybal.Prior to the opening of the building, some controversy was stirred by the removal of a statue of a nude by sculptor Tom Otterness, which Roybal had objected to as appropriate for a museum but not for a federal building.
The Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center is the county courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. It is located at 210 West Temple Street, between Broadway and Spring Street.Originally known as the Criminal Courts Building, in 2002 it was renamed the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, after Clara S. Foltz, the first female lawyer on the west coast of the United States .The building houses the main offices of the Los Angeles County District Attorney and the Los Angeles County Public Defender.Notable Trials Richard Ramirez murder trial O.J. Simpson murder trial Phil Spector murder trial Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt – 2008 murder trial BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant trial Trial of Dr. Conrad Murray for the death of Michael JacksonSecurity MeasuresHigh profile trials are held on the Ninth Floor of the building, with a secondary screening area in addition to the main screening at the ground floor level. Furthermore, the Eighth and Tenth floors are inaccessible from the public elevators and stairwells.
The Los Angeles County Hall of Records, a rare high-rise by Richard Neutra, sits in the northern end of the Civic Center in Downtown Los Angeles. An exemplar of modernist architecture, the building includes louvers similar to the Kaufmann Desert House. Additionally, the screen to the right of the louvres was a feature by sculptor Malcolm Leland to incorporate ornamentation into modernist buildings.
Los Angeles City Hall, completed 1928, is the center of the government of the city of Los Angeles, California, and houses the mayor's office and the meeting chambers and offices of the Los Angeles City Council. It is located in the Civic Center district of downtown Los Angeles in the city block bounded by Main, Temple, First, and Spring streets.