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Simon Rodia's Towers (Watts Towers)

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Creator(s)
designer: Simon Rodia (American, 1897-1965)
Time period
creation date: 1921-1954
Location
Site: Los Angeles (California, United States)
Cultural context
American
Description
1765 East 107th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90002
detail
Work type
Tower (single built work)
Sculpture
Medium
concrete
glass (material)
pipe
shell (animal material)
steel
wire
found objects
Keywords
Type
Image
Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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