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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Thanks for the information on Washington Row tovanger2. I naively thought the long line of south offices simply abutted the exterior wall.
I didn't realize it was all one structure. That detail makes it that much more interesting.
below: As you pointed out, the Washington Row building is extremely narrow.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1353198918739
google street view
google aerial
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Yes, Washington Row must have one of the more unusual footprints in the annals of architecture.
Note too that an additional nine bays were added to Washington Row some time between 1918 (see photo below from your original post) and the 1935 shot above. The old terminus is still visible as a slight projection to the left (east) of the end of the present building.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1353038492210
One of the good things Sony did was restore Washington Row's original north-facing windows. They're in groups of six under pediments supported by Doric columns at two spots along the north facade. These had been boarded up or painted over by Lorimar's time. Sony has also installed 10 new, larger windows just to the west of the old Main Gate into what used to be the old Casting Office.
The very small window one can see in low in the second bay to the left of Washington Row's west end in the 1935 view still existed in Lorimar's day. It's now been removed as has the single window high on the narrow west facade.
I also appreciate Sony's installation of the wall, inspired by Claud Beelman's 1938 Thalberg Building, that surrounds what's left of the lot not already walled by Washington Row and the old Main Gate