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The building was bought by Jack Needleman in 1962 and when he died in 1999, his son embarked on a multi-million dollar restoration. [4] In 2002, the building completed a $2.47 million ($4.18 million in 2023) historic preservation project, [5] and in 2007, the building was power-washed to remove grime and expose its intricate ornamentation and ...
Broadway Leasehold Building, also known as L.L. Burns Western Costume Building, [2] Sparkle Building [3] or Sparkle Factory, [4] is a historic seven-story building located at 908-910 S. Broadway in the Broadway Theater District in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles. The building is best known for its Banksy mural and as the filming ...
Downtown Los Angeles: Renaissance Revival building; built in 1925; served as the downtown terminus for the "Hollywood Subway"; currently a luxury apartment building 178: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Building August 18, 1977: 1111 S. Broadway Downtown Los Angeles: Mission Revival—Spanish Colonial Revival building, designed by Julia Morgan ...
The 174-room Hoxton is already open, built in a 10-story Renaissance Revival-style former office building erected in the 1920s that was once the headquarters of the Los Angeles Railway streetcar line.
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.
The Neutra Office Building is a 4,800-square-foot (450 m 2) office building in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles, California. The building was owned and designed by Modernist architect Richard Neutra in 1950. It served as the studio and office for Neutra's architecture practice from 1950 until Neutra's death in 1970.
In 1980, noted Los Angeles Times columnist Jack Smith referred to the structure as "the lovely old Spanish-style Granada Building." [ 6 ] Later renamed the Granada Buildings, the complex was purchased and restored by the Shidler Group in the late 1980s and received a preservation award from the Los Angeles Conservancy .
Dingbat building named "The Mary & Jane" with styled balconies A stucco box. In a 1998 Los Angeles Times editorial about the area's evolving standards for development, the birth of the dingbat is retold (as a cautionary tale): "By mid-century, a development-driven southern California was in full stride, paving its bean fields, leveling mountaintops, draining waterways and filling in wetlands ...