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Ground was broken for One Wilshire in 1964, and the building was completed in 1966 [2] at 624 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, on the far eastern end of Wilshire Boulevard. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The high-rise was designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill [ 4 ] and built by Del E. Webb Construction [ 9 ] to be a standard office building [ 2 ...
Aon Center is a 62-story, 858 ft (262 m) Modernist office skyscraper at 707 Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles, California. Site excavation started in late 1970, and the tower was completed in 1973.
Wilshire Boulevard originated as one of the central pathways constructed by the Tongva tribes residing in the region prior to the exploration of the conquistadores. [6] At the time of the founding of Los Angeles, Wilshire Boulevard was one of the main arteries connecting the largest Tongva village in the area, then known as Yaanga, which eventually became Union Station, to the Pacific Ocean.
Map of Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles. (as delineated by the Los Angeles Times). According to the Los Angeles Times Mapping L.A. project, Mid-Wilshire is bounded on the north by West Third Street, on the northeast by La Brea Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard, on the east by Crenshaw Boulevard, on the south by Pico Boulevard and on the west by Fairfax Avenue.
Hollywood and Vine was the second busiest intersection in the city, after Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue. [3] In the 1930s, radio station KFWB spoke of "broadcasting live from Hollywood and Vine," and newspaper columnists Hedda Hopper and Jimmie Fidler regularly touted the intersection's mystique. [3]
Part of today's Hollywood Boulevard was called Prospect Avenue, a dusty road that ran through Hollywood towards the neighboring city of Los Angeles. In December 1899, a new railroad construction began to connect Hollywood with Los Angeles in a project that was led by Peter Beveridge, H.J. Whitley, and Griffith J. Griffith.
The Hollywood & Western Building, also known as The Mayer Building, and formerly known as the "Hollywood Western Building", is a four-story Art Deco office building in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #336 on January 1, 1988, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...
The building's architect Albert C. Martin, Sr., also designed the Million Dollar Theater and Los Angeles City Hall. The May Company Building is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. [2] The building was operated as a May Company department store from 1939 until the store's closure in 1992, when May merged with J. W. Robinson's to form ...