Template:Street grid of landmarks in Victorian Downtown Los Angeles
This is a map of the former and current buildings located in the Victorian business district of Los Angeles around 1890-1905.
Abbreviations and notes
- CH = Concert Hall
- "Female boarding" was a euphemism for small rooms, "cribs", used by prostitutes.[1]
- †(Dagger) indicates a street that no longer exists
To be read like a map:
Temperance Temple (1888–1950s) Now L.A. County Heating and Refrigeration Plant. |
F O R T S T. / B R O A D W A Y |
B U E N A V I S T A S T. † |
N E W H I G H S T R E E T † |
-Lafayette Hotel/ |
M A I N S T R E E T |
—Now US 101 |
—Now US-101 freeway. —Arcadia Block (1858–1927)/
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L O S A N G E L E S S T R E E T |
Now US 101 —Bell Block —Mellus Row (Fremont HQ) —Hellman, Haas & Co. Now Federal Building (1965, Welton Becket) | ||||||
COMMERCIAL ST.† | COMMERCIAL | ||||||||||||||
Now Hall of Justice (1925) (N side of Temple from Broadway to Spring) |
—Farmers and Merchants Bank Now Los Angeles Mall |
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TEMPLE | TEMPLE | TEMPLE | |||||||||||||
High School (1873-1887)/ "Red Sandstone" Courthouse (1891-1936) Now L.A. County Courthouse (1972) |
Jones Block (J. W. Robinson's 1886–1895) Now part of City Hall site. |
S P R I N G S T R E E T |
Temple |
REQUENA ST. | (MARKET)† | ||||||||||
United States Hotel (1861–1939) | Now City Hall East (1972) | Parker Center (former LAPD HQ) | |||||||||||||
MARKET ST.† | |||||||||||||||
Hotel Broadway (d) Court Flight Funicular (1905–1943) |
PHILLIPS BLOCK (1887–1912), home to Hamburger's Peoples Store (1888–1908) |
Clock Tower Courthouse | |||||||||||||
Hall of Records (1911-1973) | COURT ST.† | Now Los Angeles Mall. (entire block) | |||||||||||||
FRANKLIN ST.† |
—#128–138 Jacoby Bros. DS (1879–1900) |
—Hall of the Amigos del País (1844-?)/ |
German-American Savings Bank (1894–1906) | ||||||||||||
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Los Angeles Times Building (#3, 1912-1938) Now vacant lot. |
Larronde Block (1892-c.1930)/ | |||||||||||||
FIRST ST. | FIRST ST. | FIRST ST. | FIRST ST. | FIRST ST. | |||||||||||
#107: Old Junípero Serra State Office Bldg. (1958–2006)[3] U.S. Courthouse ("First Street Courthouse") (entire block, 2016) #127: Mason Opera House (1902-1956)[4] |
Culver Block/ Now Times Mirror Square Pereira building (1973). |
Nadeau Hotel (1882–1932)/ |
Wilson Block (1886–?) Now LAPD HQ |
Natick House (1883–1950 JP) Now LAPD HQ |
#110: Grand Opera House/
Now Caltrans |
Doubletree Hotel (ex-New Otani) (1977) Weller Court mall | |||||||||
#128-130: Southwest Building (1903–?; Chamber of Commerce; The Herald) |
—Louis Roeder Block #1 —Bryson Block —Mueller's Block |
Now LAPD HQ (built 2009, entire block) | |||||||||||||
#141–145: Frost Bldg./ |
#138: Hellman Bldg. |
Bryson-Bonebrake |
—Corfu Hotel |
H. T. Newell Block (as of 1910, shops and offices) Now LAPD HQ | |||||||||||
SECOND ST. | SECOND ST. | SECOND ST. | SECOND ST. | SECOND ST. | |||||||||||
Broadway Media Center —American Natl./California Bank (1878-1911)/ 2nd Calif. Bank Bldg. (1911–?) —YMCA block (1889-1911)/ Merchants Trust Co. Bldg. (1910–?) |
Nolan, Smith & Bridge Bldg. (#200–4) Now Historic Broadway station under construction. |
Wilcox Building (1895-6) |
Higgins Bldg. (1910) | Little Tokyo district | |||||||||||
—#213–223 Potomac Block (1890–1953; from 1893–1905 Ville de Paris DS; from 1905–1917 Coulter's DS) –#237-241 J. W. Robinson's Boston Dry Goods (1895–1915) |
Now 213 S. Spring parking garage. –#206–10 Gordon Bldg. (New King Hotel) |
Now 213 S. Spring parking garage. —#227: 1st Los Angeles Theatre/ 2nd Orpheum Theatre/ Lyceum Theatre (1888–1941)[8] —#229 Turnverein (Lyceum) Hall (1894-1950s) —Douglas Building (1897) |
The Downtown Independent cinema | ex-Cathedral of Saint Vibiana (1876) | |||||||||||
—#253: Pan American Lofts (prev. Irvine Byrne Block, 1895) | Rindge Bldg. (c.1901) | Metropolitan Barber Shop[9] | Stimson Bldg. (1893–1963) | Now misc. retail | Now parking garage. | ||||||||||
THIRD ST. | THIRD ST. | THIRD ST. | THIRD ST. | THIRD ST. | |||||||||||
Hotel Ramona (?-1903)/[10] Million Dollar Theatre (1917- ) |
Bradbury Building (1893) | Washington Bldg. (1912) | Lankershim Bldg. (1896-7, Robert Brown Young, demolished 1959) Now Reagan Bldg. |
Wesley Roberts Bldg. Now Reagan Bldg. |
Now parking lot. |
- ^ Hadley Meares, "Hell’s Half Acre: In the old red light district of Los Angeles, women worked in squalor while pimps and landlords grew rich", Curbed L.A., November 17, 2017
- ^ "Main Street", Calisphere
- ^ a b "Junípero Serra State Office Building #1", Pacific Coast Architecture Database
- ^ "Mason Opera House", Pacific Coast Architecture Database"
- ^ " Audience at the Orpheum Theater", Los Angeles Public Library
- ^ "2nd Street and Broadway", Huntington Digital Library
- ^ "222 W. Third", Curbed LA
- ^ "Orpheum Theatre", Cinema Treasures
- ^ "Metropolitan Barber Shop" in "A visit to old Los Angeles"
- ^ "Hotel Ramona", Pacific Coast Architecture Database