- City:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Education and Health, Museums
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
From the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County description plaque: “Los Angeles planners wanted to visualize the city center to improve roads, bridges, tunnels, and other public works. Sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, a team of City Planning Department model makers, draftsmen and architects surveyed downtown Los Angeles between 1938 and 1940 and built a model of which this is just a small part. Much has changed, but you can spot Union Station, City Hall and the old Plaza.”
Source notes
Site originally submitted by Gray Brechin on July 13, 2016.
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