List of contributing properties in the Broadway Theater and Commercial District

The properties on this list are contributing properties to Los Angeles's Broadway Theater and Commercial District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

Listed Name Alternate Name Image Address Type Style Architect Year Built Additional Information
Bradbury Building 304 S. Broadway Commercial George Wyman 1893 NRHP #71000144[2]
LAHCM #6[3]
Trustee Building 340 S. Broadway Retail and office Parkinson and Bergstrom 1905
O. T. Johnson Block 350 S. Broadway Italianate Robert Brown Young 1895
O. T. Johnson Building 356 S. Broadway Romanesque John B. Parkinson 1902
Judson-Rives Building 424 S. Broadway Charles Ronald Aldrich 1906
Bumiller Building 430 S. Broadway Morgan & Walls 1906
Chester Williams Building 215 W. 5th Street Curlett & Beelman 1926
Jewelry Trades Building 220 W. 5th Street Romanesque Morgan, Walls and Morgan 1912
O. T. Johnson Building #2 510 S. Broadway Robert Brown Young 1905
Roxie Theater 518 S. Broadway Theater Art Deco John M. Cooper 1931 LAHCM #526[3]
Cameo Theater Clune's Broadway Theatre[4] 528 S. Broadway Theater Alfred Rosenheim 1910 LAHCM #524[3]
Arcade Theater 534 S. Broadway Theater Morgan & Walls 1910 LAHCM #525[3]
Arcade Building 540 S. Broadway Office Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr. 1924
Hubert-Thom McAn Building 546 S. Broadway Italianate John B. Parkinson 1900
Silverwood's Building 558 S. Broadway Walker & Eisen 1920
Finney's Cafeteria 217 W. 6th Street Dutch (1913) Plummer and Feil (1913) 1904
1913
Walter P. Story Building 610 S. Broadway Office Morgan & Walls 1908
Desmond's Building 614 S. Broadway Spanish Baroque Albert C. Martin Sr. 1924
Broadway Cafeteria 618 S. Broadway Food-service Spanish Colonial Revival Charles F. Plummer 1928
Palace Theater Orpheum Theatre
Broadway Palace
Fox Palace[5]
636 S. Broadway Theater French Renaissance G. Albert Lansburgh 1910 LAHCM #449[3]
Forrester Building 638 S. Broadway Theater Programmatic Charles Frederick Whittlesey 1907
J. E. Carr Building 644 S. Broadway Robert Brown Young 1908
Lankershim Hotel 700 S. Broadway Hospitality Robert Brown Young 1902 Mostly demolished in the early 1980s[6]
Yorkshire Hotel 710-714 S. Broadway Hospitality Parkinson and Bergstrom 1909
Parmelee Building 716 S. Broadway 1907
Barker Brothers Building 722 S. Broadway Robert Brown Young 1909
Globe Theater Morosco Theatre
Garland Building[7]
744 S. Broadway Theater and office Morgan, Walls and Morgan
Chapman Building 756 S. Broadway Ernest McConnell 1911
Tower Theater 802 S. Broadway Theater French Renaissance S. Charles Lee 1927 LAHCM #450[3]
Singer Building 806 S. Broadway Italian Renaissance Meyer & Holler 1922
Rialto Theater Quinn's Rialto Theater
Grauman’s Rialto[8]
812 S. Broadway Theater Oliver Perry Dennis 1917 LAHCM #472[3]
Apparel Center Building 814 S. Broadway Spanish Renaissance Walker & Eisen 1923
Braun Building 820-822 S. Broadway Walter Jesse Saunders 1913
Anjac Fashion Building Platt Building[9] 830 S. Broadway Gothic Revival Walker & Eisen 1927
Orpheum Theater 842 S. Broadway Theater Spanish Renaissance Schultze & Weaver
G. Albert Lansburgh
1925
Ninth and Broadway Building NW 9th and Broadway Zigzag Moderne Claude Beelman 1929
Eastern Columbia Building 849 S. Broadway Moderne Claude Beelman 1930 LAHCM #294[3]
May Company Hamburgers/May Company Department Store
Broadway Trade Center[10]
SW 8th and Broadway Retail Classical Alfred Rosenheim 1906
Merritt Building 301 W. 8th Street Italian Renaissance Reid & Reid 1914
Isaacs Building 737-747 S. Broadway Gothic 1913
Cheney Block 731 S. Broadway 1913
1940s
Woolworth's 719 S. Broadway Zigzag Moderne Weeks & Day (1920) 1920
1941
United Building State Theatre[11] 703 S. Broadway Theater and office Spanish Renaissance Weeks & Day 1920 LAHCM #522[3]
Bullock's 641 S. Broadway Parkinson and Bergstrom 1906
Pease Building Hudson and Munsell 1906 part of Bullock's complex
Eshman Building Beaux Arts Morgan & Walls 1909 part of Bullock's complex
Bridge 1921 part of Bullock's complex
Gennett Building Moderne and Beaux Arts Parkinson and Hubbard 1922 part of Bullock's complex
Hart Building (1924) Beaux Arts John and Donald Parkinson 1924 part of Bullock's complex
Hart Building (1928) Moderne and Beaux Arts John and Donald Parkinson 1928 part of Bullock's complex
Mackey Building Beaux Arts John and Donald Parkinson 1934 part of Bullock's complex
Bullocks-Hollenbeck 639 S. Broadway Morgan & Walls 1912
Mailing's 617-619 S. Broadway French Renaissance S. Charles Lee 1930
Los Angeles Theater 615 S. Broadway Blvd Theater French Renaissance S. Charles Lee 1928 LAHCM #225[3]
Norton Building 601-605 S. Broadway Office 1906
1940
Wood Brothers Building 315 W. 6th Street 1922
Swelldom Building NW 6th and Broadway Italian Renaissance Pierpont and Walter S. Davis 1920
Metropolitan Annex 553 S. Broadway 1923 Only surviving remnant of Paramount Theatre[12]
Hartfields 537 S. Broadway Art Deco 1931
Reed's 533 S. Broadway 1931
Broadway Interiors 529 S. Broadway 1928
Remick Building 517-519 S. Broadway 1902
Fifth Street Store 501-515 S. Broadway Alexander Curlett 1927
Metropolitan Building 315 W. 5th Street Parkinson and Bergstrom 1913 LAHCM #1019[3]
Wilson Building 431 S. Broadway 1909
1932
Broadway Mart Center 401-423 S. Broadway Parkinson and Bergstrom 1913
Nelson Building 355 S. Broadway Frank Van Trees 1897
Karl's 341-345 S. Broadway Abraham Moses Edelman 1903
Grand Central Market Homer Laughlin Building[13] 315 S. Broadway Thornton Fitzhugh (1905) 1897
1905
Million Dollar Theater 307 S. Broadway Theater and office Spanish Renaissance Albert C. Martin Sr.
William Lee Woollett
1917 LAHCM #1184[3]

References

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  1. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form - California SP Broadway Theater and Commercial District". United States Department of the Interior - National Park Service. May 9, 1979.
  2. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form - Bradbury Building". United States Department of the Interior - National Park Service. January 25, 1971.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Historical Cultural Monuments List" (PDF). City of Los Angeles. Retrieved October 24, 2024.
  4. ^ "Cameo Theatre". Los Angeles Conservancy. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
  5. ^ Lovingood, Marcus (January 19, 2021). "The Amazing History of the Palace Theater in Downtown Los Angeles". Broadway West.
  6. ^ Michelson, Alan. "Lankershim Hotel #2, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA". University of Washington Pacific Coast Architecture Database. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
  7. ^ "Globe Theatre/Garland Building". Los Angeles Conservancy. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
  8. ^ "Rialto Theatre". Los Angeles Conservancy. Retrieved October 24, 2024.
  9. ^ "The Platt Building (Anjac Fashion)". downtownla.com. Retrieved November 7, 2024.
  10. ^ "Hamburgers/May Company Department Store". Los Angeles Conservancy. Retrieved November 7, 2024.
  11. ^ "State Theatre and Building". Los Angeles Conservancy. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  12. ^ Michelson, Alan. "Grauman's Metropolitan Theatre and Office Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA". University of Washington Pacific Coast Architecture Database. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
  13. ^ "Photographs of buildings in Los Angeles, California and the surrounding area". Library of Congress. LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01346 (digital file from LC-HS503-474). Retrieved November 7, 2024.
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