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Tajo Building

1890s architecture in the United States1898 establishments in California1940 disestablishments in CaliforniaBuildings and structures in Downtown Los AngelesCivic Center, Los Angeles
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CHS 8202 Tajo Building First and Broadway downtown Los Angeles
CHS 8202 Tajo Building First and Broadway downtown Los Angeles

The Tajo Building was a six-story office building on the northwest corner of First and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, developed by Simona Martinez Bradbury. The building, named for the Bradbury family's Tajo silver mine in Mexico, was variously home to USC Law School, the Los Angeles Stock Exchange and, for the first decade of the 1900s, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

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Tajo Building
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