Downtown Buildings

The centre, built and rebuilt. City Hall against the height limit, the Art Deco towers, Bunker Hill flattened and replaced, Disney Concert Hall, and the skyline that arrived late and all at once.

Part of Los Angeles

30 moments in this segment.

1. 1880 - s Temple Block. Temple Block, Los Angeles. Sign for Cohn Bros. store dates the image to between 1892 and 1897.
2. 1880 - Baker Block. Los Angeles, 1880. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
3. 1885 - Temple Block with clock tower. Victorian buildings behind are - Amestoy Building and Uni…. 1885 Temple Block with clock tower. Victorian buildings behind are - Amestoy Building and United States Hotel located at Main and Requena (Market).
4. 1885 - Ca1885 Temple Block front. Los Angeles, 1885. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
5. 1886 - Monte Vista Hotel Sunland 1880s. View of the Monte Vista Hotel located at present day Fenwick Street and Floralita Avenue in Sunland (then Monte Vista).
6. 1886 - Ralphs Brothers Grocery and New York Bakery, southwest corner of Sixth Street and Spring…. Los Angeles, 1886. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
7. 1887 - Los Angeles National Bank Building, NE corner of 1st and Spring, Los Angeles, 1887-1906. Los Angeles, 1887. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
8. 1887 - View of the Downey Block. Los Angeles, 1887. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
9. 1888 - Exterior view of the Mission Hotel in San Fernando, ca.1888. Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission Hotel in San Fernando, eastern San Fernando Valley ca.1888 (1874?). • The three and a half-story, Victorian-style hotel is shown at center, with people posing on its porch and balcony.
10. 1890 - Bryson-Bonebrake Building. The Bryson-Bonebrake Building on the northwest corner of 2nd and Spring Streets, with the addition of two stories on top. The original building was completed in 1889 at a cost of $220,000. The block was commissioned by John Bryson, Sr., Los Angeles mayor, and George H. Bonebrake, banker.
11. 1890 - Boston Dry Goods and Harris Newmark buildings 1899. Boston Dry Goods (237-241) and Harris Newmark (231-5) buildings, Broadway, Los Angeles, 1899.
12. 1894 - Bradbury Building 1894. Los Angeles, 1894. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
13. 1896 - Arcadia Block Los Angeles from an 1896 lithograph. Los Angeles, 1896. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
14. 1898 - Larronde Block 1898. Larronde Block in 1898, NW corner Spring and First, Los Angeles.
15. 1900 - Bullard Block 1900. Los Angeles, 1900. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
16. 1900 - Braley Building on the Hibernian Block, Los Angeles, 1900-1903. Los Angeles, 1900. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
17. 1901 - Exterior view of the Braley Building (later the Hibernian Building), corner of Fourth St…. Los Angeles, 1901. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
18. 1905 - Los Angeles-1905-Hotel Lankershim. Los Angeles, 1905. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
19. 1905 - Sawtelle-1905-Bank Block, Sawtelle, Cal.. Los Angeles, 1905. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
20. 1913 - Exterior view of the Los Angeles Investment Building (later the C.C. Chapman Building), …. Los Angeles, 1913. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
21. 1915 - J. W. Robinson's new 7th Street store at launch 1915. Los Angeles, 1915. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
22. 1918 - New York Cloak Brockman Building 7th LAEx. Haggarty's new New York Cloak and Suit store on Seventh Street, sketch from November 1918.
23. 1918 - Larronde Block undated. Los Angeles, 1918. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
24. 1919 - Air photo of building before the building of Chamber of Commerce of the Case Hotel. Air photo (ca.1919) of building before the building (1951) of Chamber of Commerce of the Case Hotel." EXM-N-9175-016.
25. 1923 - East side of Main at Requena, United States Hotel at right, 200–202 N. Main at left. Los Angeles, 1923. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
26. 1941 - Los Angeles Stock Exchange 1941 WPA American Guide. Los Angeles, 1941. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
27. 1948 - Morris Nagel Versatogs and Adele California buildings ca1948. Los Angeles, 1948. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
28. 2005 - Behr-0020 closest crop midblock. West side of Broadway mid-block from 6th to 7th, c.1915. Former Central Department Store building at right, now site of Los Angeles Theatre.
29. 2008 - Garnier Building (Los Angeles). Garnier Building in the Los Angeles Plaza Historic District Park. The Chinese American Museum is housed in the building, which was located in the city's original Chinatown. Built in the Romanesque revival style of brick and granite, in 1890 by Philippe Garnier, a French settler and prominent businessman.
30. 2011 - * - View showing the St. Charles Hotel, originally the Bella Union Hotel. To the left (n…. (1880)* - View showing the St. Charles Hotel, originally the Bella Union Hotel. To the left (north) stands the Farmers and Merchants Bank (previously the Pico Building). Further north is the 3-story Grand Central Hotel, built in 1876.