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Title Insurance and Trust Company

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Title Insurance's history of Santa Monica, California. The cover art depicts Eugene Morahan's sculpture of the same name.

The Title Insurance and Trust Company was a title insurance company based in Los Angeles. The company was known for accumulating a notable collection of historic photographs (now in the collection of the California Historical Society) and commissioning writers, such as W. W. Robinson, to write a series of pamphlets about the history of regions and neighborhoods in Southern California.[1][2]

The Title Insurance and Trust Company building at 433 S. Spring Street, its third sequential headquarters building, was used by the company from 1928 to 1977. It is recognized as an architecturally significant building of downtown Los Angeles.[3][4] Prior to 1928, the company had offices at 401–11 and at the northwest corner of 8th and Hill, now the site of the }Garfield Building, and at the northeast corner of 8th and Hope and Eighth.[5]

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  1. ^ Grenier, Judson A. (1993-10-01). "Growing Together for a Century: Southern California and the Title Insurance and Trust Company". Southern California Quarterly. 75 (3–4): 351–439. doi:10.2307/41171685. ISSN 0038-3929. JSTOR 41171685.
  2. ^ Kurutz, Gary F. (1978-07-01). ""Courtesy of Title Insurance and Trust Company": The Historical Collection at CHS' Los Angeles History Center". California History. 57 (2): 186–194. doi:10.2307/25157831. ISSN 0162-2897. JSTOR 25157831.
  3. ^ "The Trust Building | Los Angeles Conservancy". www.laconservancy.org. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  4. ^ "Title Insurance and Trust Company, Office Building #3, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA". PCAD. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  5. ^ Nathan Nirenstein. "Los Angeles, Cal. (Business Real Estate Locations, c.1928-30)" (Map). David Rumsey Map Collection. Springfield, Massachusetts: Funk & Wagnalls Company. Archived from the original on 7 November 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2024.