Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building

The Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed in 1926 by George Nimmens Company, and built between 1927 and 1927, for a reported $5.00 million dollars, in Los Angeles, CA.

Its precise street address is 2650 E. Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA. You can also find it on the map here.

The Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building is a structure of significant importance both for the city of Los Angeles and the United States as a nation. The building embodies the distinctive characteristic features of the time in which it was built and the Art Deco style. Because of that, the Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building was officially included in the National Register of Historic Places on April 21^st 2006.

The building has been restored 4 times over the years to ensure its conservation and adaptation to the pass of time. The main restoration works happened in 1929, 1940, 1959 and 1964.

George Nimmens Company was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

That being said, architecture is a complex discipline involving many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but at the very least we know that there was one other part involved, that was SEARS as the Main Developer.

The Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building was completed in 1927, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

Both the vertical and horizontal elements of the Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building's structure are made out of reinforced concrete.

The facade of the building is load bearing. This means the facade is not only an aesthetic element, but also a key piece in how the building supports itself and transmits the vertical loads all the way down to the foundations.