Oblong atlas folio. 17 x 12 in. [15 leaves] black paper stock, interleaved as paper guards for silver-print blow-up of TLS from Title Insurance & Trust Company, 3 hand-coloured elevation and interior renderings, w/ initials L.B. & steer's skull below, 5 hand-coloured floor plan drawings w/ architectural design details, 1 blueprint map, demarcating the "Location of Westlake Professional Building." Black pebbled buckram post-binder, gilt lettering stamped on front cover (some scuffing, edgewear, minor soiling, wear to screw-posts), still VG exemplar. An exceptional architectural sales album for the historic Westlake Professional Building (renamed Macarthur Park Medical Plaza, 2007 Wilshire Blvd.) designed to serve the burgeoning medical professionals in Southern California during the Roaring 20's. This building designed by Charles S. MacKenzie, a noted San Jose, CA architect for the Wholesale Properties Corp. was "one of the earliest extensions of the medical community to Wilshire Boulevard . . . and had special amenities for medical professionals, including gas, electric, and vacuum outlets in each suite, circulating ice water, and compressed air." At a reported cost of $ 350,000, the structural engineers were Noice & Merrill out of Los Angeles, and building contractors were Walace & Bush. The enlarged linen-backed silver print of the TLS outlines the acceptance of the terms of the Trust to manage the building, while the architectural renderings vividly portray the exterior elevation, and interior amenities of the stately building erected at the corner of Orange & Westlake in 1922-1923. The Wholesale Properties Corp. intended to capitalize as well on the extension of Orange across Westlake Park connecting the area directly to downtown Los Angeles, and with anticipation of when the street would be renamed the historic Wilshire Blvd. No similar albums located in Worldcat; See: Intensive Survey: Westlake Recovery Community Redevelopment Area, City of Los Angeles (2009), pp. 16, 74-75.

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Westlake Professional Building. . . [Architectural elevation, interior renderings, and floor plans for the planned medical professional building near Westlake & Orange (renamed Wilshire Boulevard in 1924) and now stands at 2010 Wilshire Blvd.].

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Wholesale Properties, 607 Van Nuys Building, [1922]., Los Angeles, CA:

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1922

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Hardcover

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