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NASA Industrial Plant, Materials Test Lab, 12214 Lakewood Boulevard, Downey, Los Angeles County, CA
Summary
Significance: Building 120 appears to have been used as a materials test lab and compatibility testing facility. The structure was believed to be built about 1960, as part of the Apollo missions. There is some conflicting information about the actual date of construction since the "Final Historic Buildings and Structures Inventory and Evaluation" states that Building 120 was being built in 1941.
Survey number: HAER CA-310-J
Building/structure dates: ca. 1941 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1960 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1967 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1981 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1999 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1941
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Onyx Architects, contractor
Positive Image Photography, contractor
Jackson-Retondo, Elaine, transmitter
Rutkove, Audrey, historian
Olmos, Tavo, photographer
Location
Downey, 33.92353, -118.13236
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
