Los Angeles Times Building refers to five buildings that have housed the ''

Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of new ...

'' offices since 1881. The fourth site,

Times Mirror Square Times Mirror Square is a complex of buildings on the block bounded by Spring, Broadway, 1st Street, Los Angeles, First and 2nd Street, Los Angeles, Second streets in the Civic Center, Los Angeles, Civic Center district of Downtown Los Angeles. ...

, is currently composed of four structures but in the absence of other specifics "Los Angeles Times Building" usually refers to the one built in 1935. # Mirror Building, home of Mirror Printing Office and Book Bindery (1881–1887), located near Spring and

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# Los Angeles Times Building (1887–1910), located on the northwest corner of

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and Broadway; destroyed in the ''Los Angeles Times'' bombing of 1910, killing 21 people # Los Angeles Times Building (1912–1934), new construction on the same site as previous, rebuilt as a four-story building with "castle-like"

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Los Angeles Times Building, Water and Power Associates
/ref> # Los Angeles Times Building (1935–2018), street address 202 W. First Street, original structure on the southwest corner of 1st and Spring designed by Gordon Kaufmann. Construction began 1931. Eventually the ''Times'' expanded to fill the whole block as

, bounded by 1st,

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, Spring and Broadway. Later Times Mirror Square additions included the 1948 Rowland H. Crawford expansion, the 1973

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addition, and a parking structure. # Los Angeles Times Building (2018— ), a mid-century eight-story building on Imperial Highway in El Segundo, located near the

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A tour of the historic downtown L.A. Times building
Buildings and structures in Downtown Los Angeles Buildings and structures in El Segundo, California Civic Center, Los Angeles