Sherwood Apartments, Southern California Edison Building

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View of construction site where the Southern California Edison Company building is being erected shows a large mountain of dirt where a remaining portion of the old Sherwood Apartments parking garage is being demolished. Timber, rocks and other construction debris can be seen scattered throughout, as well as trucks and excavating machinery. A pedestrian walkway has been put in place along the sidewalk for safety purposes. Adjacent on the right is the Sherwood Apartment house, and on the left is the Engstrum Hotel Apartment building. Photograph dated December 12, 1929.Designed in 1929 by Allison & Allison, the Southern California Edison Company building was erected on the northwest corner of Fifth Street and Grand Avenue by the P. J. Walker Company. Occupying a site of 175 x 175 feet, and at a height of 222 feet, the fourteen-story building was about one-half the height of the Los Angeles City Hall.