1894 drawing by Bruce Wellington Pierce: portion from Third Street (bottom left) to Plaza (top right). The Red Sandstone Courthouse with its clocktower is prominent at center. At upper right is Los Angeles High School on Fort Moore Hill.

The late-Victorian-era Downtown of Los Angeles in 1880 was centered at the southern end of the Los Angeles Plaza area, and over the next two decades, it extended south and west along Main Street, Spring Street, and Broadway towards Third Street. Most of the 19th-century buildings no longer exist, surviving only in the Plaza area or south of Second Street. The rest were demolished to make way for the Civic Center district with City Hall, numerous courthouses, and other municipal, county, state and federal buildings, and Times Mirror Square.[1][2] This article covers that area, between the Plaza, 3rd St., Los Angeles St., and Broadway, during the period 1880 through the period of demolition (1920s–1950s).

At the time (1880–1900s), the area was referred to as the business center, business section or business district. By 1910, it was referred to as the "North End" of the business district which by then had expanded south to what is today called the Historic Core, along Broadway, Spring and Main roughly from 3rd to 9th streets.[3]

Location

Baist's 1910 map of the area. In blue, superimposed on the map: later changes in Spring and Temple streets, the current path of US-101, and most of the largest buildings standing today.

By the mid-1890s, First and Spring was the center of the business district, and the Bradbury Building, opened in 1893 at Third and Broadway and still standing today,[4] By 1910, the area north of Fourth Street was considered the "North End" of the business district and there were already concerns about its deterioration, as the center of commerce moved to what is now known as the Historic Core, from Third to Ninth streets.[5]

Map

The map shows the street grid in 1910, and shows in blue three important road alignment changes that came in the 1920s–1950s:

Overview of the area

William Henry Jackson panoramic photo of Los Angeles business district, c.1900-1902. The view stretches from the Bullard Block just south of Temple and Spring (left, bottom) to the Burdick Block at 2nd and Spring, right. Portions of Main Street and Los Angeles Street are visible behind. The vast majority of buildings in view have been demolished. Today, about half of the area in view is City Hall and its grounds, and most of the rest of the area is home to other buildings in the Civic Center district.

Buildings

Broadway

See also: Broadway (Los Angeles)

Temple and Broadway

Cable cars of the Temple Street Cable Railway ran along Temple Street starting in 1886 and were replaced with Pacific Electric streetcars in 1902.[6][7]

Northwest corner of Temple and Broadway

Southeast corner of Temple and Broadway (Pound Cake Hill, west side of New High St.)

This location was at the time known as Pound Cake Hill. The buildings located here faced New High Street to their east and Broadway to their west. They were as follows:[11]

Currently on the site are:

Realignment of Spring Street (1925)

The Poundcake Hill buildings originally backed up to Broadway to their west, and faced New High Street to their east. New High Street (see Sanborn map above) was a north-south street that ran parallel to Broadway, and to Spring Street to its east. As part of the construction of City Hall in the early 1920s, New High Street was removed south of Temple, and Spring Street was realigned more towards a north-south orientation, parallel with Broadway, instead of running more northeasterly and meeting Main Street at Temple Street. As a result the Poundcake Hill buildings faced the newly aligned Spring Street until they were demolished.

Southwest corner of Temple and Broadway

Adjacent to the south, mid-block, is a portion of Grand Park.

First and Broadway

Northeast corner of First and Broadway

Northwest corner of First and Broadway

Southeast corner of First and Broadway and east side of 100 block

Southwest corner of First and Broadway

The southwest corner, during Victorian times the site of unremarkable retail and office buildings, was from 1958 the location of the State Office Building, (1958-60, architect Anson C. Boyd, razed 2006). It was named the Junipero Serra State Office Building, and this moniker would be transferred to the former Broadway Department Store building at 4th and Broadway when it was opened to replace this building in 1998.[17] It is now the location of the New U.S. Courthouse built in 2016, taking up the entire block between Broadway, Hill, First and Second.[18]

Just south of the southwest corner was the Mason Theatre, 127 S. Broadway. Opened in 1903 as the Mason Opera House, 1,600 seats. Benjamin Marshall of the Chicago firm Marshall & Wilson designed the building in association with John Parkinson. Marshall is known for designing the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago. Remodeled in 1924 by Meyer & Holler. Later, as the Mason Theatre, it showed Spanish-language films. Demolished 1955.[19]

145 S. Broadway,[20]site of the C. H. Frost Building, later known as the Haig M. Prince Building. Built 1898, architect John Parkinson,[21] Now the location of the new United States Courthouse built in 2016, taking up the entire block between Broadway, Hill, First and Second.[18]

Second and Broadway

Northeast corner of Second and Broadway

One of several “Hellman Buildings” across Downtown L.A. — not to be confused with the still-existing Hellman Building at Fourth and Spring — was located here (#138) from 1897 to 1959.[22] The site is now a parking structure, part of the Times Mirror Square complex.

Southwest corner of Second and Broadway and the west side of the 200 block

The west side of the 200 block of South Broadway had a key place in the retail history of Los Angeles from the 1893 through 1917, as it was home to several prominent early department stores such as the Ville de Paris, Coulter's department store from 1905–1917, and J. W. Robinson's "Boston Dry Goods" store from 1895–1915. All three stores would move to Seventh Street when it became the upscale shopping street between 1915 and 1917.

Further south on the west side of Broadway, was 207–211, location of the:

The YMCA Building was demolished to make way for the:

Coulter's complex: Potomac and Bicknell blocks

The adjacent Potomac Block and Bicknell Block originally housed prominent retailers of the day, then were joined together in 1906 by Coulter's department store to form a complex, opening it as a new, 157,000 sq ft (14,600 m2) store in June, 1905.[26][27][28]

Potomac Block

The Potomac Block, 213–223 S. Broadway, was from 1905 to 1917 known as the B. F. Coulter Building. It was originally developed by lumberyard and mill owner J. M. Griffith. It was designed in 1888 by Block, Curlett and Eisen in Romanesque architectural style[29] and opened on July 17, 1890.[30]

Tenants included:

It was the first time major retail stores opened on South Broadway, in what would be a shift of the upmarket shopping district from 1890 to 1905 from around First and Spring to South Broadway. In 1904, Coulter's bought the Potomac Block, and combined it with the Bicknell block to create its new store that opened in 1905.

After Coulter's moved:

The building was demolished in 1953 and is still the site of a parking lot.[31]

Bicknell Block

The Bicknell Block (or Bicknell Building) at 225–229 S. Broadway, with back entrances at 224–228 S. Hill Street. was part of Coulter's from 1905 from 1917. After Coulter's moved in 1917, it housed the Western Shoe Co. (through 1922), later known as the Western Department Store (1922–1928). Lettering covered the face of the building from top to bottom through the end of the 1950s: "THE LARGEST SHOE DEPT. IN THE WEST".[32]

Further south on Broadway

Southeast corner and east side of Broadway from 2nd to 3rd

The southeast corner of 2nd and Broadway was the site of

Mid-block were:

Third and Broadway

Northwest corner of Third and Broadway

The corner is home to one of the oldest buildings outside the Plaza area, the 1895 Irvine Byrne Block or Byrne Block; now called the Pan American Lofts. The architect was Sumner Hunt. It was built in a hybrid Spanish Colonial Revival/Beaux-Arts style.

The building was home to the renowned I. Magnin clothing store that opened here on January 2, 1899;[43] on June 19, 1904, I. Magnin announced that the Los Angeles store would henceforth be known as Myer Siegel.[36] After a fire at the Irvine Byrne Building destroyed its store on February 16, 1911, Myer Siegel moved further south on Broadway.

It was modernized and converted to lofts in 2007 and given its present name. The halls and staircase have appeared in many of Alfred Hitchcock's movies, Brad Pitt's Se7en, Fight Club, Blade Runner, and other TV shows and commercials.[44]

From Third Street south to Olympic Blvd. (originally Tenth St.), and from Hill Street east to Los Angeles Street, including Broadway, is the Historic Core district, the city's main commercial and entertainment area in the first half of the 20th century.

Northeast corner of Third and Broadway

On this corner:[45]

Southwest corner of Third and Broadway

Southeast corner of Third and Broadway


For buildings further south on Broadway, see Broadway (Los Angeles).
Phillips Block

At the northwest corner of Franklin and Spring stood two buildings in succession, the Rocha Adobe, then the Phillips Block. The site now lies under the current course of Spring Street, which was straightened, i.e. realigned to run further west, in the 1920s.

Franklin to First

At the southwest corner of Franklin Street from 1894–1905 was Harris & Frank's London Clothing Co. with its landmark clock.[58][59] Harris & Frank went on to become a chain of junior department stores for men's clothing across the region.

Temple Block

The triangular space where Spring and Main Streets came together at the south side of Temple Street was the site of Temple Block: actually a collection of different structures that occupied the block bounded by Spring, Main and Temple. The first or Old Temple Block built by Francisco (F. P. F.) Temple in 1856, was of adobe, two stories, facing north to Temple. This was incorporated into a later, expanded Temple Block in 1871, and then demolished. George P. McLain wrote that upon his arrival in the town in 1868, Temple Block had been the undisputed center of commerce and social life in the town. Even into the early 1880s, it was considered the city's most stately building. It housed many law offices, including those of Stephen M. White, Will D. Gould and Glassell, Chapman and Smith.[60] The block had a key role in the retail history of Los Angeles, as it was the first home to several upscale retailers who would become big names in the city: Desmond's (1870–1882)[61] and Jacoby Bros. (1879–1891).[62] It was also home to the Odd Fellows, the Fashion Saloon, the Temple and Workman Bank, Slotterbeck's gun shop, the Wells Fargo office. The northeast corner was home to Adolph Portugal's dry goods store (1874-1879?), Jacoby Bros. (1879–1891) and Cohn Bros. (1892–1897), in succession.[63][64]

In 1925-7 this block and other surrounding areas were demolished to make way for the current Los Angeles City Hall.

Along the south side of Temple Block was Market Street, a small street running between Spring and Main.

Clocktower Courthouse/Bullard Block

Taking up the small block immediately south of Temple Block between Market and Court streets, facing both Spring and Main streets, were two buildings in succession:

Court south to First

Spring Street

See also: Spring Street (Los Angeles)

Gallery

West side of Spring south of Temple

Along the west side of Spring Street were the following buildings. Spring was realigned in the 1920s and now runs west of these sites, and the sites where these buildings once stood are now part of the full city block on which City Hall stands:


East side of Spring south of Temple

First and Spring

The image at above left looks south past the intersection of First and Spring sometime around 1900–1906. The spire of the Wilson Block is prominent on the left, as is the Nadeau Hotel on the right. In the foreground we can see the Los Angeles National Bank to the left and the Larronde Block to the right. From First to Second streets, Spring Street is still a busy shopping district, though Broadway is also just becoming popular for more upscale shopping. An electric streetcar heads to Griffin Avenue in Montecito Heights, on what would become Line 2 of the Los Angeles Railway. Today, this view would be of the 2009 LAPD Headquarters taking up the entire block on the left and on the right, the 1935 Los Angeles Times Building, and behind it, the 1948 Crawford Mirror Addition building.

Northwest corner of First and Spring

Northeast corner of First and Spring


First Street from Spring to Main

First Street east of Spring: Widney Block (i.e. Joseph Widney), built in 1883, along the north side. The main Olmsted & Wales bookstore was located in the block in the mid-1880s.

Southwest corner of First and Spring

Southeast corner of First and Spring

Four buildings have stood here in succession:

Second and Spring

Northwest corner of Second and Spring

It was replaced by the 1948 Crawford Addition building, part of the Times Mirror Square complex, currently vacant.

Northeast corner of Second and Spring

Southwest corner of Second and Spring

Southeast corner of Second and Spring

200 block

On the west side:

Two theatres together called the Perry Buildings:

On the east side:

Third and Spring

Northwest corner of Third and Spring

Northeast corner of Third and Spring

Southwest corner of Third and Spring

Southeast corner of Third and Spring

For buildings further south on Spring Street, see Spring Street (Los Angeles).

Main Street

See also: Main Street (Los Angeles)

Main from Plaza south to Arcadia

Gallery (west side)

Gallery (east side)

Pico House

Main article: Pico House

Pico House was a luxury hotel built in 1870 by Pío Pico, a successful businessman who was the last Mexican Governor of Alta California. With indoor plumbing, gas-lit chandeliers, a grand double staircase, lace curtains, and a French restaurant, the Italianate three-story, 33-room hotel was the most elegant hotel in Southern California. It had a total of nearly eighty rooms. The Pico House is listed as a California Historical Landmark (No. 159).

Masonic Hall

Masonic Hall at 416 N. Main St., was built in 1858 as Lodge 42 of the Free and Accepted Masons. The building was a painted brick structure with a symbolic "Masonic eye" below the parapet. In 1868, the Masons moved to larger quarters further south. Afterward, the building was used for many purposes, including a pawn shop and boarding house. It is the oldest building in Los Angeles south of the Plaza.

Merced Theater

The Merced Theater, completed in 1870, was built in an Italianate style and operated as a live theatre from 1871 to 1876. When the Woods Opera House opened nearby in 1876, the Merced ceased being the city's leading theatre.[113] Eventually, it gained an "unenviable reputation" because of "the disreputable dances staged there, and was finally closed by the authorities."[114]

Plaza House

This two-story building at 507–511 N. Main St. houses part of the LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, which includes the Vickrey -Brunswig Building next door.[115] It is inscribed on its upper floor, and on 1890s maps it is marked, "Garnier Block" (not to be confused with the Garnier Block/Building on Los Angeles Street, one block away). Commissioned in 1883 by Philippe Garnier, once housed the "La Esperanza" bakery.[116]

Vickrey-Brunswig Building

This five-story brick building facing the Plaza at 501 N. Main St. houses LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, which also occupies the Plaza House next door. It was built in 1888 and combines Italianate and Victorian architecture; the architect was Robert Brown Young.[117]

Site of Sentous Building

The Sentous Block or Sentous Building (19th c., demolished late 1950s) was located at 615-9 N Main St., with a back entrance on 616-620 North Spring St. (previously called Upper Main St., then San Fernando St.). Designed in 1886 by Burgess J. Reeve. Louis Sentous was a French pioneer in the early days of Los Angeles.[118] The San Fernando Theatre was located here. The site is now part of the El Pueblo parking lot.[119][120]


West side of Main from Republic south to Temple

This block is part of the site of the current Spring Street Courthouse. Buildings previously located here include:

Northwest corner of Temple and Main

On this corner stood four buildings in succession, the first two of which had a key role in the history of retail in Southern California, as it was home to a number of upscale retailers who would later grow to be big names in the city, and some, regional chains.

East side of Main from Arcadia south to Commercial

Baker Block

South of Baker Block

South of the Baker Block stood buildings that are now the site of the northwestern-most part of the Los Angeles Mall:

The Los Angeles Mall replaced these blocks; it is a small shopping center at the Los Angeles Civic Center, between Main and Los Angeles Streets on the north and south sides of Temple Street, connected by both a pedestrian bridge and a tunnel. It features Joseph Young's sculpture Triforium, with 1,500 blown-glass prisms synchronized to an electronic glass bell carillon. The mall opened in 1974 and includes a four-level parking garage with 2,400 spaces.

Eastern edge of Plaza

Since the early 1950s, Los Angeles Street has formed the eastern edge of the Plaza, but the buildings lining its eastern edge, including the Lugo Adobe, were removed.[151][152] The site is now Father Serra Park.

From the Plaza north to Alameda

Placita Dolores, where from 1888 until the 1950s, Los Angeles Street used to run a short block north of the Plaza to terminate at Alameda St.

When it was extended past the Plaza in 1888,[149] Los Angeles Street terminated one short block north of the Plaza at Alameda Street. Now, Los Angeles Street turns east at the north side of the Plaza to terminate at Alameda Street at a right angle, directly across from the Union Station complex. What was the short block of Los Angeles Street north of the Plaza is now part of Placita Dolores, a small open plaza which surrounds a statue of Mexican charro entertainer Antonio Aguilar on horseback.[153]

East side of Main from Commercial south to First

Currently, this site is the southernmost end of the Los Angeles Mall; Triforium is approximately on the site of Commercial Street.[139]

West side of Main from Temple south to First

This block is, since 1928, the site of Los Angeles City Hall

East side of Main from First to Second

Third from Spring to Main, Third and Main

On the corner of Third and Main:[148]



Buildings along Los Angeles Street

See also: Los Angeles Street
2005 view. Brick buildings at center-left are at the south end of the Plaza. Los Angeles St. runs along the Plaza's right (east) side, south towards the eastern edge of Los Angeles Mall (bottom center). The circular cluster of trees and freeway onramp to the right of the Plaza is the Lugo Adobe site. Behind them is Union Station.

Northern end of Los Angeles Street

In 1888, Calle de los Negros had just been renamed, and here is marked Los Angeles Street (only the section from Arcadia to the Plaza). In that same year, but not yet reflected on the map, the Coronel Adobe would be removed to allow Los Angeles Street to continue straight north to the Plaza from Broad Place.

The Coronel Adobe was demolished in 1888 and 1896 Sanborn maps show that the Del Valle adobe had been removed, and Los Angeles Street had been extended[149] to form the eastern edge of the Plaza, thus passing in front of the Lugo Adobe. Calle de los Negros remained for a few more decades, behind a row of houses lining the east side of Los Angeles Street between Arcadia and Aliso streets. This was also the western edge of Old Chinatown from around the 1880s through 1930s. It reached eastward across Alameda St. to cover most of the area that is now Union Station. It proceeded one more block past the Plaza, with the buildings on the east side of Olvera Street forming its western edge, until terminating at Alameda Street.[150]

Calle de los Negros

Until the late 19th century, Los Angeles Street did not form the east side of the Plaza; it ran south only from Broad Place at the intersection of Arcadia Street. Here, the Coronel Adobe blocked the path north one block to the Plaza, but just slightly to the right (east) of the path of Los Angeles Street was Calle de los Negros (Spanish-language name; marked on post-1847 maps as Negro Alley or Nigger Alley), a narrow, one-block north–south street likely named after darker-skinned Mexican afromestizo and/or mulatto residents during the Spanish colonial era.[154][155]. At the north end of Calle de los Negros stood the Del Valle adobe (also known as the Matthias or Matteo Sabichi house),[156][157] at the southern edge of which one could turn left and enter the plaza at its southeast corner. Calle de los Negros was famous for its saloons and violence in the early days of the town, and by the 1880s was considered part of Chinatown, lined with Chinese and Chinese American residences, businesses and gambling dens.[158][159]

The neglected dirt alley was already associated with vice by the early 1850s, when a bordello and its owner both known as La Prietita (the dark-skinned lady) were active here. Its other businesses included malodorous livery stables, a pawn shop, a saloon, a theater and a connected restaurant. Historian James Miller Guinn wrote in 1896, "in the flush days of gold mining, from 1850 to 1856, it was the wickedest street on earth...In length it did not exceed 500 feet, but in wickedness, it was unlimited. On either side it was lined with saloons, gambling hells, dance houses and disreputable dives. It was a cosmopolitan street. Representatives of different races and many nations frequented it. Here the ignoble red man, crazed with aguardiente, fought his battles, the swarthy Sonorian plied his stealthy dagger, and the click of the revolver mingled with the clink of gold at the gaming table when some chivalric American felt that his word of “honah” had been impugned."[154]

By 1871, the alley was notorious as a "racially, spatially, and morally disorderly place", according to historian César López. It was here that a growing number of Chinese immigrant railroad laborers settled after the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. There, William Estrada notes, the "Chinese of Los Angeles came to fill an important sector of the economy as entrepreneurs. Some became proprietors and employees of small hand laundries and restaurants; some were farmers and wholesale produce peddlers; others ran gambling establishments; and some occupied other areas left vacant by the absence of workers in the gold rush migration to California." The Chinese population increased from 14 in 1860 to almost 200 by 1870. Guinn stated that the alley stayed "wicked" through and after its transition to the city's Old Chinatown.[154]

Calle de los Negros was reconfigured in 1888 when Los Angeles Street was extended north, with a small, shallow row of houses remaining between the new section of Los Angeles street's eastern edge and the western edge of the new, shortened alley.[149][160] The site of Calle de los Negros is now the Pueblo parking lot and a cloverleaf-style entrance to the US 101 freeway.

Coronel Adobe

The Coronel Adobe was built in 1840 by Ygnacio Coronel as a family home. It stood at the northwest corner of Arcadia Street and Calle de los Negros; Los Angeles Street terminated at its southern end. The area gradually became an area for gambling and saloons, and upper-class families left to live elsewhere. Around 1849, they sold the house to a "sporting fraternity", which operated a popular 24-hour gambling establishment with games including monte, faro, and poker; up to $200,000 in gold could be seen on the tables at a time. Arguments ensued and murders were frequent. The building later became a dance hall where "lewd women" were employed, aimed at the Mexican-American population. After that, still in the 1850s, it became a grocery and dry goods store (Corbett & Barker), then a storage house for iron and hard lumber for Harris Newmark Co. It was then leased to a Chinese immigrant. In 1871, it was the site of the Chinese massacre of 1871. The Adobe was torn down in 1888 in order to extend Los Angeles Street north past the Plaza.[149]

Garnier Building

At 419 N. Los Angeles Street, at the northwest corner of Arcadia, is the Garnier Building, built in 1890, part of the Los Angeles' original Chinatown. The southern portion of the building was demolished in the 1950s to make way for the Hollywood Freeway. The Chinese American Museum is now located in the Garnier Building. It should not be confused with another Garnier Block/Building on Main St. a block away now commonly known as Plaza House.


Los Angeles Street was lined with mostly commercial buildings; the southeast end of the business district around Los Angeles and 3rd streets was the Wholesale District. Only a few buildings were notable:

West side south of Arcadia

East side south of Aliso


Transportation

Horsecars (1874–1897)

Cable cars (1885–1902)

Main article: Cable cars in Los Angeles

Cable car street railways in Los Angeles first began operating up Bunker Hill in 1885, with a total of three companies operating in the period through 1902,[169] when the lines were electrified and electric streetcars were introduced largely following the cable car routes. There were roughly 25 miles of routes, connecting 1st and Main in what was then the Los Angeles Central Business District as far as the communities known today as Lincoln Heights, Echo Park/Filipinotown, and the Pico-Union district.

Electric streetcar systems (1887–1963)

Electrically-powered streetcar systems were numerous starting with the Los Angeles Electric Railway in 1887, but were over time consolidated into two large networks:

Funiculars

Angel's Flight and Court Flight were funicular railways operating from Broadway up Bunker Hill.

Railroad depots

Landmarks shown on schematic map

This is a map of the former and current buildings located in the Victorian business district of Los Angeles around 1890-1905.

Abbreviations and notes

To be read like a map:

For the area to the north, see Los Angeles Plaza Historic District
Temperance Temple (1888–1950s)
Now L.A. County Heating
and Refrigeration Plant.
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-Lafayette Hotel/
Cosmopolitan Hotel/
St. Elmo Hotel (1850s–?)
-1st Downey Block (?–1871)
2nd Downey Block, (1871–)
later Post Office and Courthouse (1910-1937).
Now Spring Street Courthouse (1940- ).


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—Now US 101
—Stearns House (1835-1877)/
—BAKER BLOCK (1875–1942)/
—Downey Bldg. (1878-1957)
—Grand Central Hotel (1876–?)
—Pico Bldg./ Farmers & Merchants Bank (1867–1957)
—Bella Union/St. Charles Hotel (1835–1940)
—Ducommun Block/Security Pacific Bank
Now Los Angeles Mall.

—Now US-101 freeway.
—Arcadia Block (1858–1927)/




—Hellman Block (1870–?)
Now Los Angeles Mall


L
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T 		Now US 101
—Bell Block
—Mellus Row
(Fremont HQ)
—Hellman, Haas & Co.

Now Federal Building (1965, Welton Becket)

COMMERCIAL ST.† COMMERCIAL
Now Hall of Justice (1925)
(N side of Temple
from Broadway to Spring)

—Farmers and Merchants Bank
—L.A. Savings Bank
—Commercial Bank/First National Bank[171]
—New Lanfranco Block (1888)

Now Los Angeles Mall
TEMPLE TEMPLE TEMPLE

Hall of Records (1962)

 High School (1873-1887)/
"Red Sandstone" Courthouse (1891-1936)
Now L.A. County Courthouse (1972) 		Jones Block
(J. W. Robinson's 1886–1895)
Now part of City Hall site. 		S
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Temple
Block (1858/ 1871–1927)

REQUENA ST. (MARKET)†
United States Hotel (1861–1939) Now City Hall East (1972) Parker Center (former LAPD HQ)
MARKET ST.†
Court Flight Funicular (1905–1943) PHILLIPS BLOCK (1887–1912), home to Hamburger's Peoples Store (1888–1908)

Clock Tower Courthouse
(1858-1895)
Bullard Block
(1895-1925)/
Now City Hall

Hall of Records (1911-1973) COURT ST.† Now Los Angeles Mall. (entire block)
FRANKLIN ST.†

—#128–138 Jacoby Bros. DS (1879–1900)
—Los Angeles
National Bank/
Equitable Building (1906-1920s)/
Now Circle Park at City Hall.

—Hall of the Amigos del País (1844-?)/
McDonald Block
—#121–127 Jacoby Bros. DS (1879–1900)
—Lichtenberger Block
Now Circle Park at City Hall.

German-American
Savings Bank
(1894–1906)


Tajo Building (1896–mid-20th c.)
Now Law Library.

Los Angeles Times Building
(#3, 1912-1938)
Now vacant lot.

Larronde Block (1892-c.1930)/
Calif. State Bldg. (1931–1976)
Now vacant lot.

FIRST ST. FIRST ST. FIRST ST. FIRST ST. FIRST ST.
 #107: Old Junípero Serra
State Office Bldg.
(1958–2006)[172]

U.S. Courthouse
("First Street Courthouse")
(entire block, 2016)

 #127: Mason Opera House (1902-1956)[173] 		Culver Block/
Now Times Mirror Square
Pereira building
(1973).

Nadeau Hotel (1882–1932)/
Now Times Mirror Square
Kaufmann building
(1935).

Wilson Block
(1886–?)
Now LAPD HQ 		Natick House
(1883–1950 JP)
Now LAPD HQ

 

 #110: Grand Opera House/
Orpheum Theatre #1[174]

 

Now Caltrans
(entire block)

 Doubletree Hotel
(ex-New Otani) (1977)
Weller Court mall
 #128-130: Southwest Building
(1903–?;
Chamber of Commerce;
The Herald) 		—Louis Roeder Block #1
—Bryson Block
—Mueller's Block 		Now LAPD HQ
(built 2009, entire block)

 #141–145: Frost Bldg./
Haig M. Prince Bldg.[175]
Later 7-story
parking garage
(1948–1997)[172]
Now park at U.S. Courthouse.

 #138: Hellman Bldg.
(1897-1959)
Now 221 W. 2nd
parking garage.

Bryson-Bonebrake
Block (1888)
Now Times Mirror Square
Crawford Bldg. (1948– )

—Corfu Hotel

—Burdick Block
(1888-?)
a.k.a. American Bank Bldg.
Now LAPD HQ

H. T. Newell Block (as of 1910, shops and offices)
Now LAPD HQ
SECOND ST. SECOND ST. SECOND ST. SECOND ST. SECOND ST.
Broadway Media Center
—American Natl./California Bank (1878-1911)/ 2nd Calif. Bank Bldg. (1911–?)
—YMCA block (1889-1911)/
Merchants Trust Co. Bldg. (1910–?)

Hollenbeck Hotel

Nolan, Smith & Bridge Bldg. (#200–4)

Now Historic Broadway station under construction.
222 W. 3rd (30-story tower, planned)[176]

 Wilcox Building
(1895-6) 		Higgins Bldg. (1910) Little Tokyo district
—#213–223 Potomac Block
(1890–1953;
from 1893–1905 Ville de Paris DS;
from 1905–1917 Coulter's DS)
–#237-241 J. W. Robinson's Boston Dry Goods (1895–1915) 		Now 213 S. Spring parking garage.

–#206–10 Gordon Bldg. (New King Hotel)
—#212–6 Crocker Bldg. (Victor Clothing 1926–1964)
—#218–224 Copp Bldg. (Pig 'n Whistle)
—#226–8 City Hall (1888-1928)
—#240–6 Hoss Bldg. (Natatorium, Victor Clothing 1964–2001)

 Now 213 S. Spring
parking garage.

—#227: 1st Los Angeles Theatre/
2nd Orpheum Theatre/
Lyceum Theatre
(1888–1941)[177]
—#229 Turnverein (Lyceum) Hall (1894-1950s)

—Douglas Building (1897) 		The Downtown Independent cinema ex-Cathedral of Saint Vibiana (1876)
—#253: Pan American Lofts (prev. Irvine Byrne Block, 1895) Rindge Bldg. (c.1901) Metropolitan Barber Shop[178] Stimson Bldg. (1893–1963) Now misc. retail Now parking garage.
THIRD ST. THIRD ST. THIRD ST. THIRD ST. THIRD ST.
Hotel Ramona (?-1903)/[179]
Million Dollar Theatre (1917- ) 		Bradbury Building (1893) Washington Bldg. (1912) Lankershim Bldg.
(1896-7, Robert Brown Young, demolished 1959)
Now Reagan Bldg. 		Wesley Roberts Bldg.
Now Reagan Bldg. 		Now parking lot.
For the area to the south, see Historic Core


See also

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