Posted Feb 26, 2014, 4:50 PM
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Let's rearrange the outer walls....
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
I am fascinated by the technique of slicing and dicing and moving back an entire outer wall of a building, details and all. As for the masonry wall--I think the camera angles are causing the confusion--while it may appear that the façade of the NW building is in line with the pushed-back front of the Merchants National/BoA building... in fact the wall you are seeing is the stripped remnant of the original first floor of the NW building. (The apparently round detail circled in red below seems to match the series of round decorations on the original first-floor frieze.) It looks like the NW building was given the same slice-and-dice/pushback treatment as the bank building, with a new first-floor storefronts constructed:
 
USCDL/ LAT Oct 12, 1930
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Here's a detail of the bank when it was a Merchants National branch...the LAPL dates this picture as April 1925. |
I guess they cut the building at the corner and then re-positioned it ? Very bizarre.
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