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] and expanded in 2002.[2] The period of significance is 1894 to 1931.[2]

Listed NameAlternate NameImageAddressTypeStyleArchitectYear builtAdditional information
Victor Clothing Company City Hall North, Hosfield Building, Victor Clothing Lofts[3]242 S. BroadwayGovernment[3] then retail[2]Vernacular with Beaux-Arts elementsTrain & Williams1914Added to district in 2002.[2]
Residential conversion in the 2000s.[4]
Bradbury Building 304 S. BroadwayOfficeItalian Renaissance Revival[5]George Wyman1893NRHP #71000144,[6]
LAHCM #6[7]
Trustee Building 340 S. BroadwayOffice and retailParkinson and Bergstrom1905
Judson-Rives Building Broadway Central Building,[8] The Judson[9]424 S. BroadwayOffice and retail, theater from 1924-1988[10][11]Beaux Arts[10]Charles Ronald Aldrich1906LAHCM #881.[7]
Residential conversion in 2008.[9]
Bumiller Building 430 S. BroadwayRenaissance Revival[12]Morgan & Walls1906
Chester Williams Building 215 W. 5th StreetOffice[13]Beaux Arts[13]Curlett & Beelman1926Residential conversion in 2012[14]
Jewelry Trades Building Title Guarantee Block[15]220 W. 5th StreetRetail[16]RomanesqueMorgan, Walls and Morgan1912Residential conversion in 2010[17]
O. T. Johnson Building #2 Forve-Pettebone Building[7]510 S. BroadwayOffice[18]Robert Brown Young1905LAHCM #1125[7]
Roxie Theater 518 S. BroadwayTheaterArt DecoJohn M. Cooper1931LAHCM #526[7]
Cameo Theater Clune's Broadway Theatre[19]528 S. BroadwayTheaterAlfred Rosenheim1910LAHCM #524[7]
Arcade Theater Pantages Theatre[7]534 S. BroadwayTheaterBeaux-Arts[20]Morgan & Walls1910LAHCM #525[7]
Arcade Building Broadway-Spring Arcade[15]540 S. BroadwayOffice and retail[21]Spanish Renaissance and Beaux Arts[22]Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr.,[1] Maurice C. Couchot[22]1924Also contributes to the Spring Street Financial District.[23]
Residential conversion in 2010.[24]
Hubert-Thom McAn Building Eden Hotel[15]546 S. BroadwayHospitality then office[15]ItalianateJohn B. Parkinson1900
Silverwood's Building 558 S. BroadwayRetail[15]Walker & Eisen1920
Finney's Cafeteria Gebhart Building,[1] Eshman Building,[25] The Chocolate Shop,[15] Museum of Chocolate[26]217 W. 6th StreetFood-serviceGerman/Dutch interior[27]Plummer and Feil (1913)1904, 1913LAHCM #137[7]
Walter P. Story Building New Story Building[28]610 S. BroadwayOffice and retail[28]Beaux Arts[28]Morgan & Walls1908
Desmond's Building Desmond's Department Store[7]614 S. BroadwayRetail[29]Spanish Baroque / Beaux Arts[29]Albert C. Martin Sr.1924LAHCM #1207.[7]
Office conversion in 2018.[30]
Broadway Cafeteria Schaber's Cafeteria[15]618 S. BroadwayFood-serviceSpanish ColonialCharles F. Plummer1928Retail conversion sometime after 2012
Palace Theater Orpheum Theatre, Broadway Palace, Fox Palace[31]636 S. BroadwayTheaterFrench RenaissanceG. Albert Lansburgh1910LAHCM #449[7]
Forrester Building 638 S. BroadwayResidential[15]Charles Frederick Whittlesey1907
J. E. Carr Building Brooks Building[32]644 S. BroadwayCommercial[32]Renaissance Revival[32]Robert Brown Young1908
Yorkshire Hotel J. D. Hooker Building[15]710-714 S. BroadwayHospitalityParkinson and Bergstrom1909Residential conversion in 1972[33]
Parmelee Building 716 S. BroadwayOffice and retail[34]1907
Barker Brothers Building Sassony Building,[35] The Barker[36]722 S. BroadwayRetail[37]Robert Brown Young1909Office conversion in 2016[35]
Globe Theater Morosco Theatre, Garland Building[38]744 S. BroadwayTheater and officeBeaux-Arts[38]Morgan, Walls and Morgan1912
Chapman Building Los Angeles Investment Company Building,[15] Charles C. Chapman Building,[7] The Chapman,[39] Chapman Flats[40]756 S. BroadwayOffice[39]Beaux-Arts[39]Ernest McConnell1911LAHCM #899.[7]
Residential conversion in 2007.[41]
Tower Theater 802 S. BroadwayTheaterFrench RenaissanceS. Charles Lee1927LAHCM #450[7]
Retail conversion in 2021.[42]
Singer Building Allied Arts Building[43]806 S. BroadwayRetail[44]Italian RenaissanceMeyer & Holler1922Residential conversion in 2018[44]
Rialto Theater Quinn's Rialto Theater, Grauman’s Rialto[45]812 S. BroadwayTheaterGreek 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. BroadwayOffice[46]Spanish RenaissanceWalker & Eisen1923
Braun Building 820-822 S. BroadwayOffice[47]Walter Jesse Saunders1913
Anjac Fashion Building Platt Building[48]830 S. BroadwayOffice[48]Gothic 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 Arts[49]John B. Parkinson1918Added 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. BroadwayOfficeGothic RevivalUnknown[2] or Meyer and Holler[53][54][55][56]1914Added to district in 2002[2]
Western Costume Building 939 South Broadway Building, 939 Broadway Lofts, Anjac Fashion Building[57]939-47 S. BroadwayIndustrialRenaissance Revival with Gothic Revival imagery and Art Deco forms and massingKenneth A. MacDonald Jr.1925Added 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. BroadwayTheater and officeGothic Revival / Art DecoWalker & Eisen (building), C. Howard Crane (theater)1927Added 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 ModerneClaude Beelman1929
Eastern Columbia Building 849 S. BroadwayRetail[63]ModerneClaude Beelman1930LAHCM #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 BroadwayRetailClassicalAlfred Rosenheim1906LAHCM #459[7]
Merritt Building 301 W. 8th StreetOffice and retail[67]Italian RenaissanceReid & Reid1914
Issacs Building 737-747 S. BroadwayOffice[68]Gothic1913
Cheney Block 731 S. BroadwayRetail[69]S. Charles Lee (1940s)[69]1913
1940s
Woolworth's 719 S. BroadwayRetail[70]Zigzag ModerneWeeks & Day (1920)1920, 1941
United Building State Theatre[71]703 S. BroadwayTheater and officeSpanish RenaissanceWeeks & Day1920LAHCM #522[7]
Bullock's Earl,[1] Tehama Building[15]641 S. BroadwayRetailBeaux ArtsParkinson and Bergstrom1906part of Bullock's complex
Pease Building 646 S. Hill StreetRetailBeaux Arts[72]Hudson & Munsell1906part of Bullock's complex
Eshman Building Eschmann Building[73]345 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 Block[15]639 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 Norton[74]1931[74]LAHCM #225[7]
Norton Building Zukors,[15] H. Jeyne Company Building[28]601-605 S. BroadwayOffice and retailZigzag Moderne[15]Parkinson and Bergstrom[75]1906
1940
Residential conversion in 2017[76]
Wood Brothers Building 315 W. 6th Street1922
Swelldom Building Sun Drug Company Building,[15] Sun Realty Building[77]NW 6th and BroadwayRetail[15]Italian RenaissanceDavis & Davis, Henry F. Withey[15]1920
Metropolitan Annex 553 S. BroadwayOffice and retail[78]1923Only surviving portion of Paramount Theatre[79]
Hartfields F. and W. Grand Silver Store Building[7]537 S. BroadwayRetail[80]Art DecoWalker & Eisen[80]1931LAHCM #1155.[7]
Office conversion in 2015.[81]
Reed's Lerners Building[82]533 S. BroadwayRetail[82]Art Deco[82]Philip Barker[82]1931
Broadway Interiors Schulte United Building, Broadway Arts Tower[83]529 S. BroadwayRetail[83]1928Office conversion in 2014[83]
Remick Building 517-519 S. BroadwayOffice[84]Abram M. Edelman[84]1902
Fifth Street Store Shybary Grand Lofts[85]501-515 S. BroadwayRetail[86]Alexander Curlett1927Residential conversion in 2006[85]
Metropolitan Building 315 W. 5th StreetRetail and office[87]Beaux Arts[87]Parkinson and Bergstrom1913LAHCM #1019.[7]
Residential conversion in 2011.[88]
Wilson Building 431 S. Broadway1909, 1932
Broadway Mart Center Broadway Department Store,[15] Junipero Serra State Office Building[89]401-423 S. BroadwayRetail[89]Beaux Arts with Italian Renaissance Revival ornamentation[28]Parkinson and Bergstrom1913Office conversion in 1999[89]
Grand Central Market Homer Laughlin Building[90]315 S. BroadwayRetail[91]Beaux Arts[91]Thornton Fitzhugh (1905)1897, 1905LAHCM #1183[7]
Million Dollar Theater 307 S. BroadwayTheater and officeSpanish RenaissanceAlbert C. Martin Sr. (building), William Lee Woollett (theater)1917NRHP #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. BroadwayOfficeBeaux Arts[94]Sumner Hunt (1894),
Willis Polk (1911)
1894, 1911Added 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 NameAlternate NameImageAddressTypeStyleArchitectYear builtAdditional information
O. T. Johnson Block 350 S. BroadwayOffice[15]ItalianateRobert Brown Young1895
O. T. Johnson Building O. T. Johnson Block[15]356 S. BroadwayOffice[15]RomanesqueJohn B. Parkinson1902
Lankershim Hotel 700 S. BroadwayHospitalityRobert Brown Young1902Mostly demolished in the early 1980s[95]
Nelson Building Grant Building[15]355 S. BroadwayOffice 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. BroadwayRetail[15]Abram M. Edelman1903

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