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Spring Street in Los Angeles is one of the oldest streets in the city. Along Spring Street in Downtown Los Angeles, from just north of Fourth Street to just south of Seventh Street is the NRHP-listed Spring Street Financial District, nicknamed Wall Street of the West, [2] [3] lined with Beaux Arts buildings and currently experiencing gentrification.
Designed by John B. Parkinson, the Blackstone's Department Store is rectangular in plan with 90 feet (27 m) of frontage on Broadway and 165 feet (50 m) on 9th Street, and is built of brick and stone inside a steel frame. [2] [11] The building, clad in terra cotta, features a Beaux Arts design, [10] with aspects of the design that include: [2]
3rd Street, 4th Street, Broadway, Hill Street, Main Street, Olympic Boulevard, Spring Street The Historic Core is a district within Downtown Los Angeles that includes the world's largest concentration of movie palaces, [ citation needed ] former large department stores, and office towers, all built chiefly between 1907 and 1931.
This is a list of department stores and some other major retailers in the four major corridors of Downtown Los Angeles: Spring Street between Temple and Second ("heyday" from c.1884–1910); Broadway between 1st and 4th (c.1895-1915) and from 4th to 11th (c.1896-1950s); and Seventh Street between Broadway and Figueroa/Francisco, plus a block of Flower St. (c.1915 and after).
Spring Street now runs west of this site, which is part of City Hall. Jones Block. Built 1882 or -3 [3] and commissioned by Doria Deighton-Jones, [4] demolished in the 1920s to create the City Hall block. Post-1890 numbering 171–179 and 201 N. Spring St., [5] Tenants included: Los Angeles Herald offices and steam printing plant through 1888 [6]
Spring Street Courthouse in 2022. The Spring Street Courthouse, formerly the United States Court House in Downtown Los Angeles, is a Moderne style building that originally served as both a post office and a courthouse. The building was designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood and Louis A. Simon, and construction was completed in 1940.
The Continental Building, formerly Braly Block, is a 151 ft (46 m), 13-story high-rise residential building on Spring Street in the Historic Core of Los Angeles.The Continental Building is part of the Spring Street Financial District which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Spring Street Park is a public park in downtown Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California. [1] [2] Work on the $8 million park project began in 2011. [3] Trees for the park arrived in 2013. [4] The park has an off-leash dog area, as of 2014. [5]