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 and expanded in 2002. The period of significance is 1894 to 1931.
Listed NameAlternate NameImageAddressTypeStyleArchitectYear builtAdditional information Victor Clothing Company City Hall North, Hosfield Building, Victor Clothing Lofts242 S. BroadwayGovernment then retailVernacular with Beaux-Arts elementsTrain & Williams1914Added to district in 2002.Residential conversion in the 2000s. Bradbury Building 304 S. BroadwayOfficeItalian Renaissance Revival"The Bradbury Building" on the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Chapter websiteGeorge Wyman1893NRHP No. 71000144,LAHCM No. 6 Trustee Building 340 S. BroadwayOffice and retailParkinson and Bergstrom1905 Judson-Rives Building Broadway Central Building, The Judson424 S. BroadwayOffice and retail, theater from 1924-1988 Beaux ArtsCharles Ronald Aldrich1906LAHCM No. 881. Residential conversion in 2008. Bumiller Building 430 S. BroadwayRenaissance RevivalConcrete Engineering: For Engineers, Architects and Contractors, Volumes 1–2, Technical Publishing Company, 1907Morgan & Walls1906 Chester Williams Building 215 W. 5th StreetOfficeBeaux ArtsCurlett & Beelman1926Residential conversion in 2012 Jewelry Trades Building Title Guarantee Block220 W. 5th StreetRetailRomanesqueMorgan, Walls and Morgan1912Residential conversion in 2010 O. T. Johnson Building No. 2 Forve-Pettebone Building510 S. BroadwayOfficeRobert Brown Young1905LAHCM No. 1125 Roxie Theater 518 S. BroadwayTheaterArt DecoJohn M. Cooper1931LAHCM No. 526 Cameo Theater Clune's Broadway Theatre528 S. BroadwayTheaterBeaux Arts interpretation of Italian RenaissanceAlfred Rosenheim1910LAHCM No. 524 Arcade Theater Pantages Theatre534 S. BroadwayTheaterBeaux-ArtsMorgan & Walls1910LAHCM No. 525 Arcade Building Broadway-Spring Arcade540 S. BroadwayOffice and retailSpanish Renaissance and Beaux ArtsKenneth A. MacDonald Jr., Maurice C. Couchot1924Also contributes to the Spring Street Financial District.Residential conversion in 2010. Hubert-Thom McAn Building Eden Hotel546 S. BroadwayHospitality then officeItalianateJohn B. Parkinson1900 Silverwood's Building 558 S. BroadwayRetailWalker & Eisen1920 Finney's Cafeteria Gebhart Building, Eshman Building, The Chocolate Shop, Museum of Chocolate217 W. 6th StreetFood-serviceGerman/Dutch interiorPlummer and Feil (1913)1904, 1913LAHCM No. 137 Walter P. Story Building New Story Building610 S. BroadwayOffice and retailBeaux ArtsMorgan & Walls1908 Desmond's Building Desmond's Department Store614 S. BroadwayRetailSpanish Baroque / Beaux ArtsAlbert C. Martin Sr.1924LAHCM No. 1207.Office conversion in 2018. Broadway Cafeteria Schaber's Cafeteria618 S. BroadwayFood-serviceSpanish ColonialCharles F. Plummer1928Retail conversion sometime after 2012 Palace Theater Orpheum Theatre, Broadway Palace, Fox Palace636 S. BroadwayTheaterFrench RenaissanceG. Albert Lansburgh1910LAHCM No. 449 Forrester Building 638 S. BroadwayResidentialCharles Frederick Whittlesey1907 J. E. Carr Building Brooks Building644 S. BroadwayCommercialRenaissance RevivalRobert Brown Young1908 Yorkshire Hotel J. D. Hooker Building710-714 S. BroadwayHospitalityParkinson and Bergstrom1909Residential conversion in 1972 Parmelee Building 716 S. BroadwayOffice and retail1907 Barker Brothers Building Sassony Building, The Barker722 S. BroadwayRetailRobert Brown Young1909Office conversion in 2016 Globe Theater Morosco Theatre, Garland Building744 S. BroadwayTheater and officeBeaux-ArtsMorgan, Walls and Morgan1912 Chapman Building Los Angeles Investment Company Building, Charles C. Chapman Building, The Chapman, Chapman Flats756 S. BroadwayOfficeBeaux-ArtsErnest McConnell1911LAHCM No. 899.Residential conversion in 2007. Tower Theater 802 S. BroadwayTheaterFrench RenaissanceS. Charles Lee1927LAHCM No. 450Retail conversion in 2021. Singer Building Allied Arts Building806 S. BroadwayRetailItalian RenaissanceMeyer & Holler1922Residential conversion in 2018 Rialto Theater Quinn's Rialto Theater, Grauman’s Rialto812 S. BroadwayTheaterGreek Revival (1917) changed to Georgian (1923), Art Deco marquee Oliver Perry Dennis (1917), William Lee Woollett (1923)1917, 1923LAHCM No. 472 Apparel Center Building Wurlitzer Building, Anjac Fashion Building, Hudson Building814 S. BroadwayOfficeSpanish RenaissanceWalker & Eisen1923 Braun Building 820-822 S. BroadwayOfficeWalter Jesse Saunders1913 Anjac Fashion Building Platt Building830 S. BroadwayOfficeGothic RevivalWalker & Eisen1927 Orpheum Theater 842 S. BroadwayTheaterSpanish RenaissanceSchultze & Weaver, G. Albert Lansburgh1925 Blackstone's Department Store U.S. Post Office Metropolitan Station901-10 S. BroadwayRetailBeaux ArtsJohn B. Parkinson1918Added to district in 2002.LAHCM No. 765.Residential conversion in 2010. Broadway Leasehold Building L.L. Burns Western Costume Building, Sparkle Factory908-10 S. BroadwayOfficeGothic RevivalUnknown or Meyer and Holler1914Added to district in 2002 Western Costume Building 939 South Broadway Building, 939 Broadway Lofts, Anjac Fashion Building939-47 S. BroadwayIndustrialRenaissance Revival with Gothic Revival imagery and Art Deco forms and massingKenneth A. MacDonald Jr.1925Added to district in 2002.Residential conversion in 2018. United Artists Theater Building California Petroleum Corporation Building, Texaco Building, Ace Hotel, STILE Downtown Los Angeles921-37 S. BroadwayTheater and officeGothic Revival / Art DecoWalker & Eisen (building), C. Howard Crane (theater)1927Added to district in 2002.LAHCM No. 523.Hospitality conversion in 2014. Ninth and Broadway Building Anjac Fashion Building850 S. BroadwayOffice and residentialZigzag ModerneClaude Beelman1929 Eastern Columbia Building 849 S. BroadwayRetailModerneClaude Beelman1930LAHCM No. 294.Office conversion in 1957.Residential conversion in 2006. May Company Hamburgers/May Company Department Store, Broadway Trade CenterSW 8th and BroadwayRetailClassicalAlfred Rosenheim1906LAHCM No. 459 Merritt Building 301 W. 8th StreetOffice and retailItalian RenaissanceReid & Reid1914 Issacs Building 737-747 S. BroadwayOfficeGothic1913 Cheney Block 731 S. BroadwayRetailS. Charles Lee (1940s)19131940s Woolworth's 719 S. BroadwayRetailZigzag ModerneWeeks & Day (1920)1920, 1941 United Building State Theatre703 S. BroadwayTheater and officeSpanish RenaissanceWeeks & Day1920LAHCM No. 522 Bullock's Earl, Tehama Building641 S. BroadwayRetailBeaux ArtsParkinson and Bergstrom1906part of Bullock's complex Pease Building 646 S. Hill StreetRetailBeaux ArtsHudson & Munsell1906part of Bullock's complex Eshman Building Eschmann Building345 W. 7th StreetRetailBeaux ArtsMorgan & Walls1909part of Bullock's complex Bridge 321 W. 7th StreetRetailBeaux Arts1921part of Bullock's complex Gennet Building 640 S. Hill StreetRetailBeaux Arts and ModerneParkinson and Hubbard1922part of Bullock's complex Hart '24 652-658 S. Hill StreetRetailBeaux ArtsJohn and Donald Parkinson1924part of Bullock's complex Hart '28 Hill and 7thRetailBeaux ArtsJohn and Donald Parkinson1928part of Bullock's complex Mackey Building 634 S. Hill StreetRetailBeaux Arts and ModerneJohn and Donald Parkinson1934part of Bullock's complex Bullocks-Hollenbeck Hollenbeck Block639 S. BroadwayRetailBeaux ArtsMorgan & Walls1912part of Bullock's complex Mailing's 617-619 S. BroadwayRetailFrench RenaissanceS. Charles Lee1930 Los Angeles Theater 615 S. Broadway BlvdTheaterFrench RenaissanceS. Charles Lee, S. Tilden Norton1931LAHCM No. 225 Norton Building Zukors, H. Jeyne Company Building601-605 S. BroadwayOffice and retailZigzag ModerneParkinson and Bergstrom19061940Residential conversion in 2017 Wood Brothers Building 315 W. 6th Street1922 Swelldom Building Sun Drug Company Building, Sun Realty BuildingNW 6th and BroadwayRetailItalian RenaissanceDavis & Davis, Henry F. Withey1920 Metropolitan Annex 553 S. BroadwayOffice and retail1923Only surviving portion of Paramount Theatre Hartfields F. and W. Grand Silver Store Building537 S. BroadwayRetailArt DecoWalker & Eisen1931LAHCM No. 1155.Office conversion in 2015. Reed's Lerners Building533 S. BroadwayRetailArt DecoPhilip Barker1931 Broadway Interiors Schulte United Building, Broadway Arts Tower529 S. BroadwayRetail1928Office conversion in 2014 Remick Building 517-519 S. BroadwayOfficeAbram M. Edelman1902 Fifth Street Store Shybary Grand Lofts501-515 S. BroadwayRetailAlexander Curlett1927Residential conversion in 2006 Metropolitan Building 315 W. 5th StreetRetail and officeBeaux ArtsParkinson and Bergstrom1913LAHCM No. 1019.Residential conversion in 2011. Wilson Building 431 S. Broadway1909, 1932 Broadway Mart Center Broadway Department Store, Junipero Serra State Office Building401-423 S. BroadwayRetailBeaux Arts with Italian Renaissance Revival ornamentationParkinson and Bergstrom1913Office conversion in 1999 Grand Central Market Homer Laughlin Building315 S. BroadwayRetailBeaux ArtsThornton Fitzhugh (1905)1897, 1905LAHCM No. 1183 Million Dollar Theater 307 S. BroadwayTheater and officeSpanish RenaissanceAlbert C. Martin Sr. (building), William Lee Woollett (theater)1917NRHP No. 78000687,LAHCM No. 1184 Irvine-Byrne Building Irvine Block, Byrne Building, Giant Penny Building, Pan American Building, Pan American Lofts249-59 S. BroadwayOfficeBeaux ArtsSumner Hunt (1894),Willis Polk (1911)1894, 1911Added to district in 2002.LAHCM No. 544.Residential conversion in 2004.
The following properties were originally listed as contributing, but were removed when the district was expanded in 2002.
Listed NameAlternate NameImageAddressTypeStyleArchitectYear builtAdditional information O. T. Johnson Block 350 S. BroadwayOfficeItalianateRobert Brown Young1895 O. T. Johnson Building O. T. Johnson Block356 S. BroadwayOfficeRomanesqueJohn B. Parkinson1902 Lankershim Hotel 700 S. BroadwayHospitalityRobert Brown Young1902Mostly demolished in the early 1980s Nelson Building Grant Building355 S. BroadwayOffice and retailFrank Van Trees (1897),John Parkinson (1902)1897, 1902Reduced to two stories sometime between 1979 and 2005 Karl's Karl's Shoes341-345 S. BroadwayRetailAbram M. Edelman1903
References
External links National Register of Historic Places - Nomination Form