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Barker Brothers Building is made of steel, concrete, and brick with a pressed-brick facade.The building originally featured cornice and lugsills, but they were removed.The United States Department of the Interior described the building as "plain but restorable" when they included it as a contributing property in the Broadway Theater and Commercial District.
Barker approached Müller and together they founded a furniture shop on 112–114 N. Spring Street near the Los Angeles Plaza, called Barker and Mueller. In 1880, Los Angeles was a town with a population of 11,183. Its population would increase tenfold in the next twenty years, and tenfold again, to over one million, in the 25 years after that. [1]
Downtown Los Angeles's Woolworth's building is made of reinforced concrete in a steel frame and has a Zigzag Moderne facade. [6] It is 60 feet (18 m) by 170 feet (52 m) feet in size. [2] Inside, the building features two grand terrazzo-covered staircases that connect the ground floor to the basement. [4]
Norton Building, also known as Zukors [2] and H. Jeyne Company Building, [3] is a historic six story building located at 601-605 S. Broadway and 312 W. 6th Street in the Jewelry District and Broadway Theater District in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles.
Ohrbach's moved into the building the following year [5] and in 1959, the company sold the building to Starrett Corp. for $2.8 million ($29.3 million in 2023). [ 3 ] In 1979, the Broadway Theater and Commercial District was added to the National Register of Historic Places , with Fifth Street Store listed as a contributing property in the district.
Desmond's Building, built in 1924, was designed by Albert C. Martin Sr., [2] the architect responsible for several Los Angeles landmarks, including Million Dollar Theatre, City Hall, St. Vincent de Paul Church, May Company Building, and more. [3] This building was originally the flagship location of Desmond's, [4] who vacated it in 1981. [5]
Woolworth's occupied the building in 1937, with the business and building featuring a 100 yd (91 m) lunch counter, the longest in the world at the time. [2] In 1979, the Broadway Theater and Commercial District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with Wilson Building listed as a contributing property in the district. [1]
The Cameo Theatre is a historic former movie theater on Broadway in Los Angeles, California. Opened by film mogul W. H. Clune as Clune's Broadway Theatre in 1910, it was one of the first purpose-built movie theaters in the United States. It remained the oldest continually operating movie theater in Los Angeles until its closure in 1991.