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Forve-Pettebone Building
Forve-Pettebone Building, also known as Pettebone Building and O.T. Johnson Building #2, is a historic five-story building located at 510 S. Broadway in the Broadway Theater District in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles. History Forve-Pettebone Building was designed by Robert Brown Young and built for developer O.T. Johnson in 1905. Forve-Pettebone Company was one of the building's original tenants, and they designed and manufactured Broadway and downtown Los Angeles's first street lamps in the building. The building took its name from them and they moved out in 1924. In 1979, the Broadway Theater and Commercial District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with O.T. Johnson Building #2 listed as a contributing property in the district. The building was purchased in 2015, after which the facade was restored and the building's interior was upgraded to modern standards. The building was sold again in 2019, to South Korean gaming company NHN Glo ...
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United States Department Of The Interior
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources. It also administers programs relating to Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular areas of the United States, as well as programs related to historic preservation. About 75% of federal public land is managed by the department, with most of the remainder managed by the United States Department of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture's United States Forest Service, Forest Service. The department was created on March 3, 1849. It is headquartered at the Main Interior Building, located at 1849 C Street Northwest, Washington, D.C., NW in Washington, D.C. The department is headed by the United States Secretary of the ...
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Historic District Contributing Properties In California
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Buildings And Structures In Downtown Los Angeles
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building practi ...
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