Isaias W. Hellman Building, also known as Hellman Building, is a historic building located at 405-11 S. Main Street, 110-14 and 118-24 W. Fourth Street, and 410-12 S. Spring Street, in the Old Bank District in Los Angeles, California. It is a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument and part of the National Register of Historic Places-listed Spring Street Financial District.
Location Isaias W. Hellman Office Building is located in the block between Spring Street, Main Street and 4th Street, in the Old Bank District. It has entrances at 410 S. Spring, 411 S. Main and 124 W. 4th Street. It surrounds the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles as well as the Continental Building.
History Prior to the construction of Isaias W. Hellman Building, Isaias Hellman's home was located on the Main Street side of the property. Hellman sold his home to Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles, who built a bank on the site. Isaias W. Hellman Building was then built around two sides of the bank; construction on the building began in 1905 and ended in 1912. An annex to this building on Spring Street was completed in 1914. Both this building and the bank building it surrounds were designed by Morgan, Walls & Morgan.
In 2000, this building was added as a contributing property to National Register of Historic Places-listed Spring Street Financial District. The building was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 729 on October 18, 2002.
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