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] and expanded in 2002. ^[2]

Listed Name	Alternate Name	Image	Address	Type	Style	Architect	Year Built	Additional Information
Victor Clothing Company	City Hall North Hosfield Building Victor Clothing Lofts [3]		242 S. Broadway	Government [3] then retail [2]	Vernacular with Beaux-Arts elements	Train & Williams	1914	Added to district in 2002 [2] Residential conversion in the 2000s [4]
Bradbury Building			304 S. Broadway	Office	Italian Renaissance Revival [5]	George Wyman	1893	NRHP #71000144 [6] LAHCM #6 [7]
Trustee Building			340 S. Broadway	Office and retail		Parkinson and Bergstrom	1905
Judson-Rives Building	Broadway Central Building [8] The Judson [9]		424 S. Broadway	Office and retail Theater from 1924-1988 [10] [11]	Beaux Arts [10]	Charles Ronald Aldrich	1906	LAHCM #881 [7] Residential conversion in 2008 [12]
Bumiller Building			430 S. Broadway		Renaissance Revival [13]	Morgan & Walls	1906
Chester Williams Building			215 W. 5th Street	Office [14]	Beaux Arts [14]	Curlett & Beelman	1926	Residential conversion in 2012 [15]
Jewelry Trades Building	Title Guarantee Block [16]		220 W. 5th Street	Retail [17]	Romanesque	Morgan, Walls and Morgan	1912	Residential conversion in 2010 [18]
O. T. Johnson Building #2	Forve-Pettebone Building [7]		510 S. Broadway	Office [19]		Robert Brown Young	1905	LAHCM #1125 [7]
Roxie Theater			518 S. Broadway	Theater	Art Deco	John M. Cooper	1931	LAHCM #526 [7]
Cameo Theater	Clune's Broadway Theatre [20]		528 S. Broadway	Theater		Alfred Rosenheim	1910	LAHCM #524 [7]
Arcade Theater	Pantages Theatre [7]		534 S. Broadway	Theater	Beaux-Arts [21]	Morgan & Walls	1910	LAHCM #525 [7]
Arcade Building	Broadway-Spring Arcade [16]		540 S. Broadway	Office and retail [22]	Spanish Renaissance and Beaux Arts [23]	Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr. [1] Maurice C. Couchot [23]	1924	Also contributes to the Spring Street Financial District [24] Residential conversion in 2010 [25]
Hubert-Thom McAn Building	Eden Hotel [16]		546 S. Broadway	Hospitality then office [16]	Italianate	John B. Parkinson	1900
Silverwood's Building			558 S. Broadway	Retail [16]		Walker & Eisen	1920
Finney's Cafeteria	Gebhart Building [1] Eshman Building [26] The Chocolate Shop [16] Museum of Chocolate [27]		217 W. 6th Street	Food-service	German/Dutch interior [28]	Plummer and Feil (1913)	1904 1913	LAHCM #137 [7]
Walter P. Story Building	New Story Building [29]		610 S. Broadway	Office and retail [29]	Beaux Arts [29]	Morgan & Walls	1908
Desmond's Building	Desmond's Department Store [7]		614 S. Broadway	Retail [30]	Spanish Baroque / Beaux Arts [30]	Albert C. Martin Sr.	1924	LAHCM #1207 [7] Office conversion in 2018 [31]
Broadway Cafeteria	Schaber's Cafeteria [16]		618 S. Broadway	Food-service	Spanish Colonial	Charles F. Plummer	1928	Retail conversion sometime after 2012
Palace Theater	Orpheum Theatre Broadway Palace Fox Palace [32]		636 S. Broadway	Theater	French Renaissance	G. Albert Lansburgh	1910	LAHCM #449 [7]
Forrester Building			638 S. Broadway	Residential [16]		Charles Frederick Whittlesey	1907
J. E. Carr Building	Brooks Building [33]		644 S. Broadway	Commercial [33]	Renaissance Revival [33]	Robert Brown Young	1908
Yorkshire Hotel	J. D. Hooker Building [16]		710-714 S. Broadway	Hospitality		Parkinson and Bergstrom	1909	Residential conversion in 1972 [34] [35]
Parmelee Building			716 S. Broadway	Office and retail [36]			1907
Barker Brothers Building	Sassony Building [37] The Barker [38]		722 S. Broadway	Retail [39]		Robert Brown Young	1909	Office conversion in 2016 [37]
Globe Theater	Morosco Theatre Garland Building [40]		744 S. Broadway	Theater and office	Beaux-Arts [40]	Morgan, Walls and Morgan	1912
Chapman Building	Los Angeles Investment Company Building [16] Charles C. Chapman Building [7] The Chapman [41] Chapman Flats [42]		756 S. Broadway	Office [41]	Beaux-Arts [41]	Ernest McConnell	1911	LAHCM #899 [7] Residential conversion in 2007 [43]
Tower Theater			802 S. Broadway	Theater	French Renaissance	S. Charles Lee	1927	LAHCM #450 [7]
Singer Building	Allied Arts Building [44]		806 S. Broadway	Retail [45]	Italian Renaissance	Meyer & Holler	1922	Residential conversion in 2018 [45]
Rialto Theater	Quinn's Rialto Theater Grauman’s Rialto [46]		812 S. Broadway	Theater	Greek Revival (1917) changed to Georgian (1923) Art Deco marquee [46]	Oliver Perry Dennis (1917) William Lee Woollett (1923) [46]	1917 1923 [46]	LAHCM #472 [7]
Apparel Center Building	Wurlitzer Building [16] Anjac Fashion Building [47] Hudson Building [47]		814 S. Broadway	Office [47]	Spanish Renaissance	Walker & Eisen	1923
Braun Building			820-822 S. Broadway	Office [48]		Walter Jesse Saunders	1913
Anjac Fashion Building	Platt Building [49]		830 S. Broadway	Office [49]	Gothic Revival	Walker & Eisen	1927
Orpheum Theater			842 S. Broadway	Theater	Spanish Renaissance	Schultze & Weaver G. Albert Lansburgh	1925
Blackstone's Department Store	U.S. Post Office Metropolitan Station		901-10 S. Broadway	Retail	Beaux Arts [50]	John B. Parkinson	1918	Added to district in 2002 [2] LAHCM #765 [7] Residential conversion in 2010. [51]
Broadway Leasehold Building	L.L. Burns Western Costume Building [52] Sparkle Factory [53]		908-10 S. Broadway	Office	Gothic Revival	Unknown [2] Meyer and Holler [54] [55] [56] [57]	1914	Added to district in 2002 [2]
Western Costume Building	939 South Broadway Building 939 Broadway Lofts Anjac Fashion Building [58]		939-47 S. Broadway	Industrial	Renaissance Revival with Gothic Revival imagery and Art Deco forms and massing	Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr.	1925	Added to district in 2002 [2] Residential conversion in 2018 [59]
United Artists Theater Building	California Petroleum Corporation Building [60] Texaco Building [60] Ace Hotel [60] STILE Downtown Los Angeles [61]		921-37 S. Broadway	Theater and office	Gothic Revival / Art Deco	Walker & Eisen (building) C. Howard Crane (theater)	1927	Added to district in 2002 [2] LAHCM #523 [7] Hospitality conversion in 2014 [62]
Ninth and Broadway Building	Anjac Fashion Building [63]		850 S. Broadway [16]	Office and residential [16]	Zigzag Moderne	Claude Beelman	1929
Eastern Columbia Building			849 S. Broadway	Retail [64]	Moderne	Claude Beelman	1930	LAHCM #294 [7] Office conversion in 1957 [65] Residential conversion in 2006 [66]
May Company	Hamburgers/May Company Department Store Broadway Trade Center [67]		SW 8th and Broadway	Retail	Classical	Alfred Rosenheim	1906	LAHCM #459 [7]
Merritt Building			301 W. 8th Street	Office and retail [68]	Italian Renaissance	Reid & Reid	1914
Issacs Building			737-747 S. Broadway	Office [69]	Gothic		1913
Cheney Block			731 S. Broadway	Retail [70]		S. Charles Lee (1940s) [70]	1913 1940s
Woolworth's			719 S. Broadway	Retail [71]	Zigzag Moderne	Weeks & Day (1920)	1920 1941
United Building	State Theatre [72]		703 S. Broadway	Theater and office	Spanish Renaissance	Weeks & Day	1920	LAHCM #522 [7]
Bullock's			641 S. Broadway			Parkinson and Bergstrom	1906
Pease Building						Hudson & 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	Retail	French Renaissance	S. Charles Lee	1930
Los Angeles Theater			615 S. Broadway Blvd	Theater	French Renaissance	S. Charles Lee S. Tilden Norton [73]	1931 [73]	LAHCM #225 [7]
Norton Building	Zukors [16] H. Jeyne Company Building [29]		601-605 S. Broadway	Office and retail	Zigzag Moderne [16]	Parkinson and Bergstrom [74]	1906 1940	Residential conversion in 2017 [75]
Wood Brothers Building			315 W. 6th Street				1922
Swelldom Building	Sun Drug Company Building [16]		NW 6th and Broadway	Retail [16]	Italian Renaissance	Davis & Davis, Henry F. Withey [16]	1920
Metropolitan Annex			553 S. Broadway	Office and retail [76]			1923	Only surviving portion of Paramount Theatre [77]
Hartfields	F. and W. Grand Silver Store Building [7]		537 S. Broadway	Retail [78]	Art Deco	Walker & Eisen [78]	1931	LAHCM #1155 [7] Office conversion in 2015 [79]
Reed's	Lerners Building [80]		533 S. Broadway	Retail [80]	Art Deco [80]	Philip Barker [80]	1931
Broadway Interiors	Schulte United Building Broadway Arts Tower [81]		529 S. Broadway	Retail [81]			1928	Office conversion in 2014 [81]
Remick Building			517-519 S. Broadway	Office [82]		Abram M. Edelman [82]	1902
Fifth Street Store	Shybary Grand Lofts [83]		501-515 S. Broadway	Retail [84]		Alexander Curlett	1927	Residential conversion in 2006 [83]
Metropolitan Building			315 W. 5th Street	Retail [85]	Beaux Arts [86]	Parkinson and Bergstrom	1913	LAHCM #1019 [7] Residential conversion in 2011 [85]
Wilson Building			431 S. Broadway	Retail [87]			1909 1932
Broadway Mart Center	Broadway Department Store [16] Junipero Serra State Office Building [88]		401-423 S. Broadway	Retail [88]	Beaux Arts with Italian Renaissance Revival ornamentation [29]	Parkinson and Bergstrom	1913	Office conversion in 1999 [88]
Grand Central Market	Homer Laughlin Building [89]		315 S. Broadway	Retail [90]	Beaux Arts [90]	Thornton Fitzhugh (1905)	1897 1905	LAHCM #1183 [7]
Million Dollar Theater			307 S. Broadway	Theater and office	Spanish Renaissance	Albert C. Martin Sr. (building) William Lee Woollett (theater)	1917	NRHP #78000687 [91] LAHCM #1184 [7]
Irvine-Byrne Building	Irvine Block [16] Byrne Building [16] Giant Penny Building [92] Pan American Building [16] Pan American Lofts [93]		249-59 S. Broadway	Office	Beaux Arts [93]	Sumner Hunt (1894) Willis Polk (1911)	1894 1911	Added to district in 2002 [2] LAHCM #544 [7] Residential conversion in 2004 [93]

The following properties were originally listed as contributing, ^[1] but were removed when the district was expanded in 2002. ^[2]

Listed Name	Alternate Name	Image	Address	Type	Style	Architect	Year Built	Additional Information
O. T. Johnson Block			350 S. Broadway	Office [16]	Italianate	Robert Brown Young	1895
O. T. Johnson Building	O. T. Johnson Block [16]		356 S. Broadway	Office [16]	Romanesque	John B. Parkinson	1902
Lankershim Hotel			700 S. Broadway	Hospitality		Robert Brown Young	1902	Mostly demolished in the early 1980s [94]
Nelson Building	Grant Building [16]		355 S. Broadway	Office and retail [95]		Frank Van Trees (1897) [1] John Parkinson (1902) [96]	1897 [1] 1902 [96]	Reduced to two stories sometime between 1979 [1] and 2005 [97]
Karl's	Karl's Shoes [16]		341-345 S. Broadway	Retail [16]		Abram M. Edelman	1903

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External links

• National Register of Historic Places - Nomination Form