Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building

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View of the 9-story Art Deco Sears store located at 2650 E. Olympic Boulevard and Soto Street in Boyle Heights. It is one of nine mail order retail centers built in the country between 1910 and 1930. A number of cars are parked along Olympic Blvd as well as in the parking lot visible in the forefront. Photograph dated: November 1989. The Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building, located in Boyle Heights, was built in 1927 as a distribution center for the company's mail order department. It was designed in the Art Deco style by the architectural firm of George Nimmens Company and was constructed by Scofield Engineering-Construction Company in record-breaking time: a mere 6 months, at a cost of $5,000,000