The Southern California Gas Company Complex is a group of buildings on Flower Street in

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. The main building, completed in 1925, was designed in the

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. It was originally used as offices by the

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, but was later converted to

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. The six story extension at 820 S. Flower Street was designed by Robert V. Derrah in the

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style in 1942. The two concrete side sections curve into a recessed glass center.David Gebhard, Robert Winter. An architectural guidebook to Los Ángeles, revised 2003, p.243.
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in 2004.

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