Tidewater Building

About

The Tidewater Building is a six-storey office in Los Angeles, California. The building was constructed as the headquarters of the Tidewater Oil Company following its takeover by J. Paul Getty, and was built on the site of the former William O. Jenkins House, which Getty had purchased in 1937. The building's architect was Claud Beelman. It was planned to include 13 storeys, however, only six were constructed. In 1966, Tidewater sold the building to Phillips Petroleum, at which point it became known as the Phillips Building. Phillips kept the building only for three years and sold it in 1969 to Harbor Insurance, a subsidiary of Unionamerica, Inc., the holding company of the Union Bank & Trust Company. Since 1969, the building has been known as the Harbor Building.