Hughes Aircraft Company, Warehouse-Stores Building, 6775 Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Significance: Built in 1950 as part of a major plant expansion project at Hughes Aircraft, Building 17 is a long, rectangular, high bay one story structure, 442 ft long by 84 ft wide, with a mezzanine level at the east end. A spare, utilitarian design, the unadorned steel framed structure is sheltered by a very slightly pitched gabled roof supported by 10 ft deep trusses placed 20 ft on center which allow for an open, free span interior space. It is clad with the Robertson U.K. 18-18 vertical smooth steel panels typical of the plant buildings constructed during this era. It rests on a poured concrete foundation with columns set on concrete pilings, and has a concrete floor.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1613
Survey number: HAER CA-174-L
Building/structure dates: 1950 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1956 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1972 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1994 Subsequent Work