Los Angeles Times Building

{{short description|Five sites housing regional newspaper}}

File:Los Angeles Times building (1912–1934) street view prior to demolition in 1938.jpg

Los Angeles Times Building refers to five buildings that have housed the Los Angeles Times offices since 1881. The fourth site, Times Mirror Square, is currently composed of four structures but in the absence of other specifics "Los Angeles Times Building" usually refers to the one built in 1935.

1. Mirror Building, home of Mirror Printing Office and Book Bindery (1881–1887), located near Spring and Temple{{Cite news |last=Elebee |first=Lorena Iñiguez |last2=Simani |first2=Ellis |last3=Curwen |first3=Thomas |last4=Owens |first4=Charles Hamilton |date=2018-07-20 |title=Inside the historic buildings that have defined the Los Angeles Times |url=http://www.latimes.com/projects/latimes-building/ |access-date=2023-04-05 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |language=en}}
2. Los Angeles Times Building (1887–1910), located on the northwest corner of 1st and Broadway; destroyed in the Los Angeles Times bombing of 1910, killing 21 people
3. Los Angeles Times Building (1912–1934), new construction on the same site as previous, rebuilt as a four-story building with "castle-like" clock tower[https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_LA_Buildings%20(1800s)_Page_2.html#LA_Times_Building1 Los Angeles Times Building, Water and Power Associates]
4. Los Angeles Times Building (1935–2018), street address 202 W. First Street,{{Cite web |title=Times Mirror Square {{!}} Los Angeles Conservancy |url=https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/times-mirror-square |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=www.laconservancy.org}} original structure on the southwest corner of 1st and Spring designed by Gordon Kaufmann.{{Cite web |title=LA Times Building (Downtown Los Angeles Walking Tour) |url=http://dornsife.usc.edu/la-walking-tour/la-times-building/ |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |language=en}} Construction began 1931.{{Cite web |title=PCAD - Times-Mirror Company, Los Angeles Times Building #4, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA |url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/1373/ |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=pcad.lib.washington.edu}} Eventually the Times expanded to fill the whole block as Times Mirror Square, bounded by 1st, 2nd, Spring and Broadway. Later Times Mirror Square additions included the 1948 Rowland H. Crawford expansion, the 1973 William Pereira addition, and a parking structure.
5. Los Angeles Times Building (2018— ), a mid-century eight-story building on Imperial Highway in El Segundo, located near the Los Angeles International Airport