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 |
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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 [9] |
Bumiller Building | ![]() | 430 S. Broadway | Renaissance Revival [12] | Morgan & Walls | 1906 | |||
Chester Williams Building | ![]() | 215 W. 5th Street | Office [13] | Beaux Arts [13] | Curlett & Beelman | 1926 | Residential conversion in 2012 [14] | |
Jewelry Trades Building | Title Guarantee Block [15] | ![]() | 220 W. 5th Street | Retail [16] | Romanesque | Morgan, Walls and Morgan | 1912 | Residential conversion in 2010 [17] |
O. T. Johnson Building #2 | Forve-Pettebone Building [7] | ![]() | 510 S. Broadway | Office [18] | 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 [19] | ![]() | 528 S. Broadway | Theater | Alfred Rosenheim | 1910 | LAHCM #524 [7] | |
Arcade Theater | Pantages Theatre [7] | ![]() | 534 S. Broadway | Theater | Beaux-Arts [20] | Morgan & Walls | 1910 | LAHCM #525 [7] |
Arcade Building | Broadway-Spring Arcade [15] | ![]() | 540 S. Broadway | Office and retail [21] | Spanish Renaissance and Beaux Arts [22] | Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr. [1] Maurice C. Couchot [22] | 1924 | Also contributes to the Spring Street Financial District [23] Residential conversion in 2010 [24] |
Hubert-Thom McAn Building | Eden Hotel [15] | ![]() | 546 S. Broadway | Hospitality then office [15] | Italianate | John B. Parkinson | 1900 | |
Silverwood's Building | ![]() | 558 S. Broadway | Retail [15] | Walker & Eisen | 1920 | |||
Finney's Cafeteria | Gebhart Building [1] Eshman Building [25] The Chocolate Shop [15] Museum of Chocolate [26] | ![]() | 217 W. 6th Street | Food-service | German/Dutch interior [27] | Plummer and Feil (1913) | 1904 1913 | LAHCM #137 [7] |
Walter P. Story Building | New Story Building [28] | ![]() | 610 S. Broadway | Office and retail [28] | Beaux Arts [28] | Morgan & Walls | 1908 | |
Desmond's Building | Desmond's Department Store [7] | ![]() | 614 S. Broadway | Retail [29] | Spanish Baroque / Beaux Arts [29] | Albert C. Martin Sr. | 1924 | LAHCM #1207 [7] Office conversion in 2018 [30] |
Broadway Cafeteria | Schaber's Cafeteria [15] | ![]() | 618 S. Broadway | Food-service | Spanish Colonial | Charles F. Plummer | 1928 | Retail conversion sometime after 2012 |
Palace Theater | Orpheum Theatre Broadway Palace Fox Palace [31] | ![]() | 636 S. Broadway | Theater | French Renaissance | G. Albert Lansburgh | 1910 | LAHCM #449 [7] |
Forrester Building | ![]() | 638 S. Broadway | Residential [15] | Charles Frederick Whittlesey | 1907 | |||
J. E. Carr Building | Brooks Building [32] | ![]() | 644 S. Broadway | Commercial [32] | Renaissance Revival [32] | Robert Brown Young | 1908 | |
Yorkshire Hotel | J. D. Hooker Building [15] | ![]() | 710-714 S. Broadway | Hospitality | Parkinson and Bergstrom | 1909 | Residential conversion in 1972 [33] [34] | |
Parmelee Building | ![]() | 716 S. Broadway | Office and retail [35] | 1907 | ||||
Barker Brothers Building | Sassony Building [36] The Barker [37] | ![]() | 722 S. Broadway | Retail [38] | Robert Brown Young | 1909 | Office conversion in 2016 [36] | |
Globe Theater | Morosco Theatre Garland Building [39] | ![]() | 744 S. Broadway | Theater and office | Beaux-Arts [39] | Morgan, Walls and Morgan | 1912 | |
Chapman Building | Los Angeles Investment Company Building [15] Charles C. Chapman Building [7] The Chapman [40] Chapman Flats [41] | ![]() | 756 S. Broadway | Office [40] | Beaux-Arts [40] | Ernest McConnell | 1911 | LAHCM #899 [7] Residential conversion in 2007 [42] |
Tower Theater | ![]() | 802 S. Broadway | Theater | French Renaissance | S. Charles Lee | 1927 | LAHCM #450 [7] | |
Singer Building | Allied Arts Building [43] | ![]() | 806 S. Broadway | Retail [44] | Italian Renaissance | Meyer & Holler | 1922 | Residential conversion in 2018 [44] |
Rialto Theater | Quinn's Rialto Theater Grauman’s Rialto [45] | ![]() | 812 S. Broadway | Theater | Greek Revival (1917) changed to Georgian (1923) Art Deco marquee [45] | Oliver Perry Dennis (1917) William Lee Woollett (1923) [45] | 1917 1923 [45] | LAHCM #472 [7] |
Apparel Center Building | Wurlitzer Building [15] Anjac Fashion Building [46] Hudson Building [46] | ![]() | 814 S. Broadway | Office [46] | Spanish Renaissance | Walker & Eisen | 1923 | |
Braun Building | ![]() | 820-822 S. Broadway | Office [47] | Walter Jesse Saunders | 1913 | |||
Anjac Fashion Building | Platt Building [48] | ![]() | 830 S. Broadway | Office [48] | 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 [49] | John B. Parkinson | 1918 | Added to district in 2002 [2] LAHCM #765 [7] Residential conversion in 2010. [50] |
Broadway Leasehold Building | L.L. Burns Western Costume Building [51] Sparkle Factory [52] | 908-10 S. Broadway | Office | Gothic Revival | Unknown [2] Meyer and Holler [53] [54] [55] [56] | 1914 | Added to district in 2002 [2] | |
Western Costume Building | 939 South Broadway Building 939 Broadway Lofts Anjac Fashion Building [57] | ![]() | 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 [58] |
United Artists Theater Building | California Petroleum Corporation Building [59] Texaco Building [59] Ace Hotel [59] STILE Downtown Los Angeles [60] | ![]() | 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 [61] |
Ninth and Broadway Building | Anjac Fashion Building [62] | ![]() | 850 S. Broadway [15] | Office and residential [15] | Zigzag Moderne | Claude Beelman | 1929 | |
Eastern Columbia Building | ![]() | 849 S. Broadway | Retail [63] | Moderne | Claude Beelman | 1930 | LAHCM #294 [7] Office conversion in 1957 [64] Residential conversion in 2006 [65] | |
May Company | Hamburgers/May Company Department Store Broadway Trade Center [66] | ![]() | SW 8th and Broadway | Retail | Classical | Alfred Rosenheim | 1906 | LAHCM #459 [7] |
Merritt Building | ![]() | 301 W. 8th Street | Office and retail [67] | Italian Renaissance | Reid & Reid | 1914 | ||
Issacs Building | ![]() | 737-747 S. Broadway | Office [68] | Gothic | 1913 | |||
Cheney Block | ![]() | 731 S. Broadway | Retail [69] | S. Charles Lee (1940s) [69] | 1913 1940s | |||
Woolworth's | ![]() | 719 S. Broadway | Retail [70] | Zigzag Moderne | Weeks & Day (1920) | 1920 1941 | ||
United Building | State Theatre [71] | ![]() | 703 S. Broadway | Theater and office | Spanish Renaissance | Weeks & Day | 1920 | LAHCM #522 [7] |
Bullock's | Earl [1] Tehama Building [15] | ![]() | 641 S. Broadway | Retail | Beaux Arts | Parkinson and Bergstrom | 1906 | part of Bullock's complex |
Pease Building | ![]() | 646 S. Hill Street | Retail | Beaux Arts [72] | Hudson & Munsell | 1906 | part of Bullock's complex | |
Eshman Building | Eschmann Building [73] | 345 W. 7th Street | Retail | Beaux Arts | Morgan & Walls | 1909 | part of Bullock's complex | |
Bridge | ![]() | 321 W. 7th Street | Retail | Beaux Arts | 1921 | part of Bullock's complex | ||
Gennet Building | 640 S. Hill Street | Retail | Beaux Arts and Moderne | Parkinson and Hubbard | 1922 | part of Bullock's complex | ||
Hart '24 | 652-658 S. Hill Street | Retail | Beaux Arts | John and Donald Parkinson | 1924 | part of Bullock's complex | ||
Hart '28 | Hill and 7th | Retail | Beaux Arts | John and Donald Parkinson | 1928 | part of Bullock's complex | ||
Mackey Building | 634 S. Hill Street | Retail | Beaux Arts and Moderne | John and Donald Parkinson | 1934 | part of Bullock's complex | ||
Bullocks-Hollenbeck | Hollenbeck Block [15] | ![]() | 639 S. Broadway | Retail | Beaux Arts | Morgan & Walls | 1912 | part of Bullock's complex |
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 [74] | 1931 [74] | LAHCM #225 [7] | |
Norton Building | Zukors [15] H. Jeyne Company Building [28] | ![]() | 601-605 S. Broadway | Office and retail | Zigzag Moderne [15] | Parkinson and Bergstrom [75] | 1906 1940 | Residential conversion in 2017 [76] |
Wood Brothers Building | 315 W. 6th Street | 1922 | ||||||
Swelldom Building | Sun Drug Company Building [15] | ![]() | NW 6th and Broadway | Retail [15] | Italian Renaissance | Davis & Davis, Henry F. Withey [15] | 1920 | |
Metropolitan Annex | ![]() | 553 S. Broadway | Office and retail [77] | 1923 | Only surviving portion of Paramount Theatre [78] | |||
Hartfields | F. and W. Grand Silver Store Building [7] | ![]() | 537 S. Broadway | Retail [79] | Art Deco | Walker & Eisen [79] | 1931 | LAHCM #1155 [7] Office conversion in 2015 [80] |
Reed's | Lerners Building [81] | ![]() | 533 S. Broadway | Retail [81] | Art Deco [81] | Philip Barker [81] | 1931 | |
Broadway Interiors | Schulte United Building Broadway Arts Tower [82] | ![]() | 529 S. Broadway | Retail [82] | 1928 | Office conversion in 2014 [82] | ||
Remick Building | ![]() | 517-519 S. Broadway | Office [83] | Abram M. Edelman [83] | 1902 | |||
Fifth Street Store | Shybary Grand Lofts [84] | ![]() | 501-515 S. Broadway | Retail [85] | Alexander Curlett | 1927 | Residential conversion in 2006 [84] | |
Metropolitan Building | ![]() | 315 W. 5th Street | Retail [86] | Beaux Arts [87] | Parkinson and Bergstrom | 1913 | LAHCM #1019 [7] Residential conversion in 2011 [86] | |
Wilson Building | ![]() | 431 S. Broadway | Retail [88] | 1909 1932 | ||||
Broadway Mart Center | Broadway Department Store [15] Junipero Serra State Office Building [89] | ![]() | 401-423 S. Broadway | Retail [89] | Beaux Arts with Italian Renaissance Revival ornamentation [28] | Parkinson and Bergstrom | 1913 | Office conversion in 1999 [89] |
Grand Central Market | Homer Laughlin Building [90] | ![]() | 315 S. Broadway | Retail [91] | Beaux Arts [91] | 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 [92] LAHCM #1184 [7] | |
Irvine-Byrne Building | Irvine Block [15] Byrne Building [15] Giant Penny Building [93] Pan American Building [15] Pan American Lofts [94] | ![]() | 249-59 S. Broadway | Office | Beaux Arts [94] | Sumner Hunt (1894) Willis Polk (1911) | 1894 1911 | Added to district in 2002 [2] LAHCM #544 [7] Residential conversion in 2004 [94] |
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 |
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O. T. Johnson Block | 350 S. Broadway | Office [15] | Italianate | Robert Brown Young | 1895 | |||
O. T. Johnson Building | O. T. Johnson Block [15] | 356 S. Broadway | Office [15] | Romanesque | John B. Parkinson | 1902 | ||
Lankershim Hotel | ![]() | 700 S. Broadway | Hospitality | Robert Brown Young | 1902 | Mostly demolished in the early 1980s [95] | ||
Nelson Building | Grant Building [15] | ![]() | 355 S. Broadway | Office and retail [96] | Frank Van Trees (1897) [1] John Parkinson (1902) [97] | 1897 [1] 1902 [97] | Reduced to two stories sometime between 1979 [1] and 2005 [98] | |
Karl's | Karl's Shoes [15] | ![]() | 341-345 S. Broadway | Retail [15] | Abram M. Edelman | 1903 |