The Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building is a landmark five-story office building in the Late Moderne style built in 1949 as the headquarters for its namesake company. The building was designed by Paul Revere Williams, the noted African-American Architect. The building is located in the West Adams district of South Los Angeles about 3.5 miles southwest of downtown and 2 miles northwest of Exposition Park and USC. This was the company’s second building to bear this name, the first having been built in 1928.