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Pacific Telephone Tower

This telephone equipment facility and tower was designed by John B. and Donald D. Parkinson and opened in 1961. It is a surprisingly attractive work of modernism, especially in contrast to ordinarily unornamented and boxy phone equipment buildings. The building is distinguished not only by a 448-foot microwave tower that ascends from a rectangular base to an octogonal pair of platforms, a mural on the southern face, and wall artwork on the Grand Street side that comobines mosaic tiles with obsolete brass phone switching equipment. (Southland Architecture)

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