The Santa Fe Freight Depot stands in the Arts District of Los Angeles. The Santa Fe Coast lines built it as a railroad freight depot, using steel-reinforced concrete at a cost of about $300,000. Harrison Albright is credited as architect. The article gives the date as both 1907 and 1922. The building is 1,250 feet (380 meters) long, a quarter mile, and half of it is 37 feet (11 meters) wide.
Both sides have 120 bays, so freight cars could unload on one side while trucks loaded on the other. By the 1990s it was vacant and stripped to concrete. In 2000 the Southern California Institute of Architecture leased it and spent about two years converting it into a 61,000-square-foot (5,700-square-meter) school. SCI-Arc bought it in 2011 for $23.1 million.
The depot was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 3, 2006.
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