Spring Street Courthouse

California, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Wheelchair access: Accessible

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Located in Downtown Los Angeles, the Spring Street Courthouse is a Streamline Moderne building completed in 1940 and designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood and Louis A. Simon. Originally serving dual purposes as a post office and federal courthouse, it housed the United States District Court for the Southern District of California until that district was redrawn in 1966, after which it served the Central District of California until federal courts relocated to the First Street Courthouse in 2016. Today the building functions as a Los Angeles Superior Court facility. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2012, the courthouse carries significance as the site of the Gonzalo Mendez et al v. Westminster School District of Orange County case, a pivotal civil rights victory for Mexican-Americans that preceded the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.