In the interregnum, Judge Wellborn and company ruled from the fourth floor of the Tajo Building.

[8] An elevator accident in the building in 1914 injured 21 people, including several USC Law students who had just left a torts class.

As part of a three-way property swap circa 1937, the city deeded the building to the county.

[14] The Los Angeles County Law Library now occupies the site where the Tajo Building once stood.

[17] According to the Pacific Coast Architecture Database:[18] The Tajo Building had a stone front facade over a brick structure.

The top floor had a succession of nine wall dormers, each with a tall swan's neck broken pediment gracing it.