List of contributing properties in the Broadway Theater and Commercial District

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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 NameAlternate NameImageAddressTypeStyleArchitectYear BuiltAdditional Information
Bradbury Building Bradbury building Los Angeles c2005 01383u crop.jpg 304 S. BroadwayCommercial Italian Renaissance Revival [2] George Wyman 1893NRHP #71000144 [3]
LAHCM #6 [4]
Trustee Building 340 S. BroadwayRetail 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 Broadway Central Building [5]
The Judson [6] 		Judson-Rives Building.jpg 424 S. BroadwayRetail and office
Theater from 1924-1988 [7] [8] 		Beaux Arts [7] Charles Ronald Aldrich 1906LAHCM #881 [4]
Residential conversion in 2008 [9]
Bumiller Building BumillerBldgLA.jpg 430 S. Broadway Renaissance Revival [10] Morgan & Walls 1906
Chester Williams Building Chester Williams Building 01.jpg 215 W. 5th StreetOffice [11] Beaux Arts [11] Curlett & Beelman 1926Residential conversion in 2012 [12]
Jewelry Trades Building Title Guarantee Block [13] Jewelry Trades Building-1.jpg 220 W. 5th StreetRetail [14] Romanesque Morgan, Walls and Morgan 1912Residential conversion in 2010 [15]
O. T. Johnson Building #2 Forve-Pettebone Building [4] Pettebone Building (1905, architect Robert Brown Young), 510-512 S. Broadway Los Angeles.jpg 510 S. BroadwayOffice [16] Robert Brown Young 1905LAHCM #1125 [4]
Roxie Theater Roxie Theater-1.jpg 518 S. BroadwayTheater Art Deco John M. Cooper 1931LAHCM #526 [4]
Cameo Theater Clune's Broadway Theatre [17] 528 S. Broadway, Los Angeles.jpg 528 S. BroadwayTheater Alfred Rosenheim 1910LAHCM #524 [4]
Arcade Theater Pantages Theatre [4] Arcade Theater Building-2.jpg 534 S. BroadwayTheater Beaux-Arts [18] Morgan & Walls 1910LAHCM #525 [4]
Arcade Building Broadway Arcade Building-3.jpg 540 S. BroadwayOffice Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr. 1924
Hubert-Thom McAn Building 546 S. Broadway Italianate John B. Parkinson 1900
Silverwood's Building Silverwood's Clothing Store-1.jpg 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 New Story Building [19] Walter P. Story Building-1.jpg 610 S. BroadwayRetail and office [19] Beaux Arts [19] Morgan & Walls 1908
Desmond's Building Desmond's Department Store.jpg 614 S. Broadway Spanish Baroque Albert C. Martin Sr. 1924LAHCM #1207 [4]
Broadway Cafeteria 618 S. BroadwayFood-service Spanish Colonial Revival Charles F. Plummer 1928
Palace Theater Orpheum Theatre
Broadway Palace
Fox Palace [20] 		Palace Theater (Los Angeles).jpg 636 S. BroadwayTheater French Renaissance G. Albert Lansburgh 1910LAHCM #449 [4]
Forrester Building 638 S. BroadwayTheater Charles Frederick Whittlesey 1907
J. E. Carr Building Brooks Building [21] JE Carr Building-1.jpg 644 S. Broadway Renaissance Revival [21] Robert Brown Young 1908
Lankershim Hotel Exterior view of the Lankershim Hotel at Seventh Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1907 (CHS-2427).jpg 700 S. BroadwayHospitality Robert Brown Young 1902Mostly demolished in the early 1980s [22]
Yorkshire Hotel 710-714 S. BroadwayHospitality Parkinson and Bergstrom 1909
Parmelee Building 716 S. Broadway1907
Barker Brothers Building Barker Brothers Building.jpg 722 S. Broadway Robert Brown Young 1909
Globe Theater Morosco Theatre
Garland Building [23] 		Globe Theater.jpg 744 S. BroadwayTheater and office Beaux-Arts [23] Morgan, Walls and Morgan 1912
Chapman Building Exterior view of the Los Angeles Investment Building (later the C.C. Chapman Building), ca.1913-1918 (CHS-2321).jpg 756 S. BroadwayOffice [24] Beaux-Arts [25] Ernest McConnell 1911LAHCM #899 [4]
Tower Theater Tower Theatre, Los Angeles.jpg 802 S. BroadwayTheater French Renaissance S. Charles Lee 1927LAHCM #450 [4]
Singer Building Allied Arts Building [26] Singer Building (Los Angeles).jpg 806 S. BroadwayRetail [27] Italian Renaissance Meyer & Holler 1922Residential conversion in 2018 [27]
Rialto Theater Quinn's Rialto Theater
Grauman’s Rialto [28] 		A theater on Broadway (Los Angeles) July 2022 (2).jpg 812 S. BroadwayTheaterOriginally Greek Revival, changed to Georgian
Art Deco marquee [28] 		Oliver Perry Dennis 1917LAHCM #472 [4]
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 [29] Platt Building-1.jpg 830 S. BroadwayOffice [29] Gothic Revival Walker & Eisen 1927
Orpheum Theater Los angeles orpheum marquee.JPG 842 S. BroadwayTheater Spanish Renaissance Schultze & Weaver
G. Albert Lansburgh 		1925
Ninth and Broadway Building Ninth and Broadway Building-1.jpg NW 9th and Broadway Zigzag Moderne Claude Beelman 1929
Eastern Columbia Building Easternstandard cropped by mlsb.jpg 849 S. BroadwayRetail [30] Moderne Claude Beelman 1930LAHCM #294 [4]
Office conversion in 1957 [31]
Residential conversion in 2006 [32]
May Company Hamburgers/May Company Department Store
Broadway Trade Center [33] 		Exterior view of The Hamburger's Store building (later became the May Company) on the corner of Eighth Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1912 (CHS-5541).jpg SW 8th and BroadwayRetail Classical Alfred Rosenheim 1906LAHCM #459 [4]
Merritt Building Merritt Building-1.jpg 301 W. 8th StreetRetail and office [34] Italian Renaissance Reid & Reid 1914
Isaacs Building 737-747 S. Broadway Gothic 1913
Cheney Block 731 S. Broadway1913
1940s
Woolworth's 719 S. Broadway Zigzag Moderne Weeks & Day (1920)1920
1941
United Building State Theatre [35] State Theatre (Los Angeles) Auditorium.jpg 703 S. BroadwayTheater and office Spanish Renaissance Weeks & Day 1920LAHCM #522 [4]
Bullock's 641 S. Broadway Parkinson and Bergstrom 1906
Pease Building Hudson and Munsell 1906part of Bullock's complex
Eshman Building Beaux Arts Morgan & Walls 1909part of Bullock's complex
Bridge1921part of Bullock's complex
Gennett Building Moderne and Beaux Arts Parkinson and Hubbard1922part of Bullock's complex
Hart Building (1924) Beaux Arts John and Donald Parkinson 1924part of Bullock's complex
Hart Building (1928) Moderne and Beaux Arts John and Donald Parkinson 1928part of Bullock's complex
Mackey Building Beaux Arts John and Donald Parkinson 1934part 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 Los Angeles Theatre 2017.jpg 615 S. Broadway BlvdTheater French Renaissance S. Charles Lee 1928LAHCM #225 [4]
Norton Building H. Jeyne Company [36] Norton Building-1.jpg 601-605 S. BroadwayRetail and office Parkinson and Bergstrom [37] 1906
1940		Residential conversion in 2017 [38]
Wood Brothers Building 315 W. 6th Street1922
Swelldom Building Sun Drug Company Building [13] Sun Drug Company Building-1.jpg NW 6th and BroadwayRetail [13] Italian Renaissance Pierpont, Walter S. Davis, and Henry F. Withey [13] 1920
Metropolitan Annex Metropolitan Annex.jpg 553 S. BroadwayRetail and office [39] 1923Only surviving portion of Paramount Theatre [40]
Hartfields F. and W. Grand Silver Store Building [4] Hartfield's (1931) 01.jpg 537 S. Broadway Art Deco 1931LAHCM #1155 [4]
Reed's 533 S. Broadway1931
Broadway Interiors 529 S. Broadway1928
Remick Building Remick Building.jpg 517-519 S. Broadway Abram M. Edelman [41] 1902
Fifth Street Store 501-515 S. Broadway Alexander Curlett 1927
Metropolitan Building Metropolitan Building (Los Angeles).jpg 315 W. 5th StreetRetail [42] Beaux Arts [43] Parkinson and Bergstrom 1913LAHCM #1019 [4]
Residential conversion in 2011 [42]
Wilson Building Wilson Building (Los Angeles).jpg 431 S. BroadwayRetail [44] 1909
1932
Broadway Mart Center 401-423 S. Broadway Parkinson and Bergstrom 1913
Nelson Building Grant Building [13] W. E. Cummings store in Grant Block, NW corner 4th and Broadway, shortly after Grant Building was enlarged to 7 stories in 1902.png 355 S. BroadwayRetail and office [45] Frank Van Trees (1897) [1]
John Parkinson (1902) [46] 		1897 [1]
1902 [46] 		Reduced to two stories sometime between 1979 and 2005 [1] [47]
Karl's Karl's Shoes [13] 341-345 S. BroadwayRetail [13] Abram M. Edelman 1903
Grand Central Market Homer Laughlin Building [48] Grand Central Market.jpg 315 S. BroadwayRetail [49] Beaux Arts [49] Thornton Fitzhugh (1905)1897
1905		LAHCM #1183 [4]
Million Dollar Theater Million Dollar Theater Building-1.jpg 307 S. BroadwayTheater and office Spanish Renaissance Albert C. Martin Sr.
William Lee Woollett 		1917NRHP #78000687 [50]
LAHCM #1184 [4]

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