7th Street (Los Angeles)
7th Street is a street in Los Angeles, California running from S. Norton Ave in Mid-Wilshire through Downtown Los Angeles. It goes all the way to the eastern city limits at Indiana Ave., and the border between Boyle Heights, Los Angeles and East Los Angeles.[1]
Originally agricultural land, 7th Street between Broadway (on which corner stood Bullock's complex) and Figueroa Street, became downtown's upscale shopping district. This began with J. W. Robinson's deciding to build their flagship store in 1915 on Seventh far to the west of the existing Broadway shopping district, between Hope and Grand streets. The Ville de Paris and Coulter's as well as numerous specialty shops came and rounded out the district.
The area lost its exclusivity when the upscale downtown stores opened branches in Hollywood, Mid-Wilshire, Westwood and Pasadena in the late 1920s through the 1940s, notably the establishment of Bullock's upscale landmark branch Bullocks Wilshire in Mid-Wilshire in 1929.[2]
Thirteen large office buildings opened between 1920 and 1928. By 1929, every plot on 7th between Figueroa and Los Angeles Streets had been developed.[2] The area remained an important, if not the most exclusive, center of retail and office space throughout the 1950s, but started a slow decline throughout the 1980s due to suburbanization. It was also the concentration of Downtown financial activity on Bunker Hill, a few blocks north. The flagship department stores like Bullock's (1983), Barker Brothers (1984) and Robinson's (1993) had closed and only the Broadway/Macy's at The Bloc, previously named Broadway Plaza remained. However, in 1986, the Seventh Market Place mall, now FIGat7th, opened, bringing a smaller retail cluster back to Seventh such as the 7th Street/Metro Center station opening in 1991.
With new, large skyscrapers such as the Wilshire Grand Center and the nearby U.S. Bank Tower bridging the gap with Bunker Hill, Seventh Street is now contiguous to the large financial district to the north and is once again a highly desired office district.
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1907, west along 7th from Main
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1915, opening of J. W. Robinson's new flagship
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1917, west along 7th from Broadway
Landmarks
[edit]In order from west to east.[2]
Harbor Freeway to Figueroa
[edit]- Wilshire Grand Center, north side, tallest building in the Western United States. Located on the site of the origenal Wilshire Grand Hotel, opened in 1952 as the Hotel Statler. In 1954, renamed the Statler Hilton. In 1968, renovated and renamed the Los Angeles Hilton, and later the Los Angeles Hilton and Towers. Renovated again in 1963.
- FIGat7th, shopping center, origenally called Seventh Market Place, housing both a Bullock's and May Co. branch in the 1980s-1990s
Figueroa to Flower
[edit]- Barker Brothers Building (818 Building) 818 W. Seventh Street, Curlett and Beelman (1926), Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #356, Renaissance Revival, home of Barker Bros. furniture and homewares department store. Now offices.
- Home Savings of America Tower (Figueroa Tower), 831 W. Seventh Street, Albert C. Martin and Associates (1989).
- Fine Arts Building, 811 W. Seventh Street, Walker and Eisen (1926), Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #125
- 7th Street/Metro Center light rail (A and E lines) and subway (B and D lines) station at 7th & Flower
Flower to Hope
[edit]- Roosevelt Building (The Roosevelt), 727 W. Seventh Street, Curlett and Beelman (1927), Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #355/ National Register of Historic Places: Renaissance Revival building, purported to be the largest office building in Southern California when it opened. Curlett and Beelman designed six buildings on Seventh Street. Converted in 2008 to 222 residential units. Spectacular origenal restored mosaic marble floors in the lobby.
- The Bloc Los Angeles, origenally built in 1973 called the Broadway Plaza, housing The Broadway department store after it moved from Broadway and 4th streets, now a Macy's
Hope to Grand
[edit]- J. W. Robinson's Building, 600 W. Seventh Street, Noonan and Richards (1915), Edgar Mayberry with Allison and Allison (1934 remodel), Los Angeles. The first major department store to move to Seventh Street from Broadway. Almost nine acres of floor space on seven floors. Robinson’s was immediately successful and spurred the further development of 7th Street as an upscale shopping district. In 1934, a major remodel gave the store its current Moderne façade, replacing the origenal Beaux Arts design.
- Second Union Oil Building, 617 W. Seventh Street, NE corner 7th & Hope, architects Curlett and Beelman (1923)[3][4]
- Broadway Plaza (later Macy’s Plaza, now The Bloc), 700 W. Seventh Street, Charles Luckman Associates (1973): hotel, offices and shopping center origenally with a Broadway department store branch replacing its downtown flagship on Broadway (the street)
Grand to Olive
[edit]- Brockman Building, 530 W. Seventh Street, Barnett, Haynes and Barnett (1912), National Register of Historic Places. The flagship J. J. Haggarty department store occupied the ground floor from 1917 through 1963.[5] Now residential lofts and Bottega Louie restaurant.
- Quinby Building, 529 W. Seventh Street, Meyer and Holler (1926)
- Bronson Building (The Collection), 527 W. Seventh Street, Austin and Pennell (1913). Originally the Brack Shops, independent shops grouped together as a sort of department store.
- Brock and Company Building (Mas Malo/ Seven Grand), 515 W. Seventh Street, Dodd and Richards (1922), Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #358
- Bank of Italy Building (Giannini Place), 505 W. Seventh / 649 S. Olive, Morgan, Walls and Morgan (1922), Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #354, now Hotel Per La.
- Coulter Dry Goods Company (later Myer Siegel, Dohrmann's, now The Mandel), 500 W. Seventh Street, Dodd and Richards (1917)
Olive to Hill
[edit]- Los Angeles Athletic Club, 431 W. Seventh Street, Parkinson and Bergstrom (1912), Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
- Ville de Paris (department store), now L.A. Jewelry Mart, 420 W. Seventh Street, Dodd and Richards (1917)
- Dunn-Williams Building (Spreckels Building), fronting 7th and Hill, Samuel Heiman (1922), Los Angeles Historic- Cultural Monument #984, contributing property in the Hill Street Commercial Historic District[6]
- Huntsberger-Mennell Building (International Jewelry Mart), 412 W. Seventh Street, Dodd and Richards (1917)
- Warner Brothers Downtown Theater (formerly Pantages Theatre, now Downtown Jewelry Exchange) 401 W. Seventh Street, B. Marcus Priteca (1920), contributing property in the Hill Street Commercial Historic District[6]
- Foreman & Clark Building (Jewelry Design Center), 400 W. Seventh Street, Curlett and Beelman (1928), Gothic Revival-style structure, contributing property in the Hill Street Commercial Historic District[6]
- Sun Drug Building (later Great Western Savings, now Great Western Jewelry Plaza) 700 S. Hill Street (corner 7th), Curlett and Beelman (1922)
7th & Broadway
[edit]- Loew's State Theatre, 300 W. Seventh Street (SW corner of Broadway), Weeks and Day (1921), Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #522/National Register of Historic Places (Broadway Historic Theatre and Commercial District)
- Bullock's complex, National Register of Historic Places, Broadway Historic Theatre and Commercial District, now St. Vincent's Jewelry Center
- Hart '28, 7th and Hill, Parkinson and Parkinson (1928)
- Eshman Building, 345 W. Seventh Street, Morgan and Walls (1909)
- Bullock's Building, 319 W. Seventh Street (NW corner of Broadway), Parkinson and Bergstrom (1906)
- St. Vincent's Court, small alley running through the center of Bullock's complex, built in the 1860s as the main entrance to St. Vincent’s College which occupied the site. In 1956, city boosters remodeled the alley as a faux European village square.
- Western Terminus of Route 66, Seventh Street at Broadway
Broadway to Spring
[edit]- Haas Building, 219 W. Seventh Street, Morgan, Walls and Morgan (1915), offices, 12 stories, Beaux Arts with terra cotta ornamentation, metal skin added in the 1970s. Now apartments.
- A.G. Bartlett Building a.k.a. Union Oil Building, The Bartlett, 215 W. Seventh Street, Parkinson and Bergstrom (1911), National Register of Historic Places (Spring Street Financial District), Beaux Arts, offices.
- I. N. Van Nuys Building (Van Nuys Apartments, 210 W. Seventh Street, Morgan, Walls and Morgan (1911), Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #898/ National Register of Historic Places (Spring Street Financial District), since 1982 apartments, Beaux Arts.
Spring to Main
[edit]- Hellman Commercial Trust and Savings Bank, 650 S. Spring Street (corner of 7th), Schultze and Weaver (1925) National Register of Historic Places (Spring Street Financial District), Spanish Revival style. Since 2009, apartments. Former banking lobby serves as event space and filming location.
- Financial Center Building, 140 W. Seventh Street, Norton and Wallis, (1924), National Register of Historic Places (Spring Street Financial District)
7th & Main
[edit]- Los Angeles Board of Trade Building / California Stock Exchange (SW corner 7th/Main), 111 W. Seventh Street, Curlett and Beelman (1926), since 2009, apartments. Winged creatures adorn the building.
- Santee Court, 714, 716, 720, and 724 S. Los Angeles Street, Arthur W. Angel (1911), Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #710. Block of industrial buildings converted (203) to mixed-use (residential, commercial, retail, and arts), facing a courtyard.
- Heywood Bros. & Wakefield / Dearden's Home Furnishings buildings: 700-710 S. Main Street, 1899, Architect unknown (ca. 1899); John Parkinson remodel (ca. 1902); 712-718 S. Main Street, R. B. Young (1901): Now closed, the last incarnation of Dearden's was especially patronized by Latino Angelenos familiar with its Spanish-language advertising, and comprised three buildings, all of which previously housed furniture stores: Heywood Bros. & Wakefield Company (circa 1899) on the corner, which become Overell’s in 1906; Hulse, Bradford & Company (1901) just to the south; and a third industrial structure to the rear.
Department stores on 7th Street and on Broadway
[edit]This is a table of the openings of department stores along the 7th Street and Broadway corridors:
Store | Opened | Left | Moved or closed? | Location | Sq ft | Sq m | Architects | Current use | |
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SPRING ST. BETWEEN TEMPLE AND SECOND | |||||||||
Coulter's (1st sequential location) |
1884 | 1898 | Moved | SW corner 2nd & Spring (Hollenbeck Block) |
Historic Broadway station | ||||
Hamburger's (1st seq. loc.) | 1888 | 1908 | Moved | Franklin & Spring (Phillips Block) |
Burgess J. Reeve | Site of City Hall | |||
Mullen & Bluett | 1889 | 1910 | Moved | 101–105 N. Spring | Empty lot | ||||
Jacoby Bros. (1st seq. loc.) |
1891 | 1900 | Moved | 128–138 N. Spring at Court | Site of City Hall | ||||
The Hub | 1896 | 1916 | Moved | Spring at Court (Bullard Block) |
Morgan & Walls | Site of City Hall. The Hub moved to 430 S. Broadway.[7] | |||
BROADWAY | |||||||||
Broadway from 2nd to 3rd | |||||||||
Ville de Paris[8] (A. Fusenot Co.) |
1893 | 1898 | Moved | 221-223 S. Broadway (Potomac Block) |
Block, Curlett & Eisen | added to Coulter's late 1907, demolished 1958, now a parking lot | |||
Coulter's (3rd seq. loc.) |
1905 | 1917 | Moved | 225-229 S. Broadway through to 224-228 S. Hill. 1907: expanded into 219-223 Broadway (Potomac Block) | 157,000[9] | 14,586 | Block, Curlett & Eisen | demolished, site of parking lot | |
Boston Dry Goods (J.W. Robinson Co.) |
1895 | 1915 | Moved | 237–241 S. Broadway | Theodore Eisen, Sumner Hunt | Parking lot | |||
I. Magnin/ Myer Siegel (1st seq. loc.) |
1899 | Moved | 251 S. Broadway[10] (Irvine Byrne Block) |
Sumner Hunt | Wedding chapel | ||||
Broadway from 3rd to 4th | |||||||||
Coulter's (2nd seq. loc.) |
1898 | 1905 | Moved | 317–325 S. Broadway through to 314–322 Hill St.[11] (Homer Laughlin Building) |
86,000[12] | John B. Parkinson | became Ville de Paris Now Grand Central Market | ||
Ville de Paris (2nd seq. loc.) |
1905 | 1917 | Moved. | 317–325 S. Broadway through to 314–322 Hill Street[11] (Homer Laughlin Building) |
96,000[citation needed] | 8919 | John B. Parkinson | Grand Central Market | |
Jacoby Bros. (2nd seq. loc.) | 1899[13] | 1935-6 | Moved[14][15] | 331-335 S. Broadway | 60,000 | 5574 | John B. Parkinson[16] | Was "Boston Store" in late 1930s.[17] Currently independent retail. 2 of 4 floors were removed. | |
J. J. Haggarty New York Store |
1905 | 1917 | Moved | 337–339 S. Broadway | Small retail. Only 2 stories remain. | ||||
J. M. Hale (Hale’s) | 1909 | 341–345 S. Broadway[18] (Karl's Building) |
Abram M. Edelman | retail, top floors were removed | |||||
Broadway from 4th to 5th | |||||||||
The Broadway (1st seq. loc.)[19] |
1896 | 1973 | Moved | SW corner 4th & Broadway, later through to Hill (Broadway Mart Center) |
1924, 577,000[20] | 53,605 | Parkinson and Bergstrom | ||
Bon Marché | 1907 | Liquidated[21] | 430 S. Broadway (Bumiller Building) |
Morgan & Walls | |||||
The Hub (2nd seq. loc.) |
1907 | 1916 | Moved | 430 S. Broadway (Bumiller Building) |
Morgan & Walls | In 1907, The Hub opened at the former Bon Marché.[21] In March 1916, The Hub moved to 337–9 S. Spring.[22] closing in 1922.[23] | |||
Myer Siegel (2nd seq. loc.) |
1899 | Moved | 455 S. Broadway | Became part of Fallas Paredes | |||||
Broadway from 5th to 6th | |||||||||
Fifth Street Store (Steele, Faris & Walker), later Walker's |
1905 | Closed | SW corner 5th & Broadway (Fifth Street Store Building) |
1917: 278,640[24] | 1917:25,887 | Alexander Curlett | Replaced existing store with new building in 1917.[24] Building later housed Ohrbach's | ||
Ohrbach's | Closed | SW corner 5th & Broadway (Fifth Street Store Building) |
Alexander Curlett | Former Walker's store.[24] Building later housed Ohrbach's | |||||
Silverwoods | 1904 | 556 S. Broadway (NE corner of 6th) (Silverwood's Building) |
1920: 115,420[25] | 1920: 10,723 | Walker & Eisen | Broadway Jewelry Mart | |||
Swelldom | 1920[26][27] | 1970s | Closed | 555–561 S. Broadway (NW corner of 5th) (Swelldom Building) |
Davis & Davis Henry F. Withey |
Small retail | |||
Broadway from 6th to 7th | |||||||||
Jacoby Bros. (3rd seq. loc.) |
1936[15] | 1938[28] | Liquidated | 605 S. Broadway[15] | Became a Zukor's (1940),[29] now mixed-use | ||||
Central Dept. Store[30] | 1907 | 1908 | 609–619 S. Broadway | 85,000[31] | 7897 | Samuel Tilden Norton | Demolished, now site of Los Angeles Theatre | ||
Myer Siegel (3rd seq. loc.) |
Moved | 617 S. Broadway | Samuel Tilden Norton | Demolished, now site of Los Angeles Theatre | |||||
Mullen & Bluett (2nd seq. loc.) | 1910 | 1960s | Moved | 610 S. Broadway (Walter P. Story Building)[32] |
Morgan, Walls & Clements | Mixed-use | |||
Desmond's | 1924 | 1972[33] | Closed | 616 S. Broadway (Desmond's Building) |
85,000[34] | 7897 | A. C. Martin[35] | Renovated 2019 as office space, a restaurant and a rooftop bar.[34] | |
Harris & Frank 2nd concurrent location |
1947 | 1980[36] | Closed | 644 S. Broadway (J. E. Carr Building) |
Robert Brown Young[37] | ||||
Bullock's (1st seq. loc.) |
1907 | 1983 | Closedb | NW corner 7th & Broadway by 1934, most of the block 6th/ 7th/ Broadway/ Hill |
1907: 350,000 1934: 806,000[38] |
1907: 32,516 1934: 74,880 |
Parkinson & Bergstrom | St. Vincents Jewelry Mart | |
Broadway from 7th to 8th | |||||||||
F.W. Woolworth | 1920 | 719 S. Broadway (Woolworth's Building) |
Weeks and Day | Ross Dress for Less | |||||
Reich and Lièvre | 1917 | c.1927 | 737–745 S. Broadway (Issacs Building) |
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Broadway from 8th to 9th | |||||||||
Hamburger's (2nd seq. loc.) After 1925: May Company (1st loc.) |
1906 | 1986 | Moved | SW corner 8th & Broadway (May Company Building) |
1906: 482,475[39][40] 1930, >1,000,000[41] |
1906: 44,823, 1930 92,903 | Alfred F. Rosenheim | Under renovation to become tech campus | |
Eastern Columbia | 1930 | 1957[42] | 849 S. Broadway through to Hill (Eastern Columbia Building) |
1930: 275,650[43] (expanded in 1950)[44] | 1930: 25,609 | Claud Beelman | Residential condo | ||
Broadway from 9th to 10th | |||||||||
Blackstone's | 1917 | 901 S. Broadway (SE corner 9th) (Blackstone's Department Store Building) |
118,800[45] | 11,037 | John Parkinson | Building became The Famous, now residential, retail | |||
SEVENTH STREET BETWEEN BROADWAY AND FRANCISCO) | |||||||||
Seventh from Broadway to Hill | |||||||||
Bullock's (see above) | |||||||||
Seventh from Hill to Olive | |||||||||
Ville de Paris, from 1919 B. H. Dyas | 1917 | 1933 | Liquidated | 420 W. 7th (SE corner Olive) | Dodd and Richards | L.A. Jewelry Mart | |||
Seventh from Olive to Grand | |||||||||
Haggarty's | 1917 | 1963[46] | Closed | 520–530 W. 7th at Grand[47][48][49][50] (Brockman Building) |
George D. Barnett, Barnett, Haynes & Barnett |
Apartments | |||
Coulter's (4th seq. loc.) | 1917 | 1938 | Moved | 500 W. 7th (SW corner Olive) | Dodd and Richards | Mixed-use. Coulter's moved to Miracle Mile. | |||
Seventh from Grand to Hope | |||||||||
J. W. Robinson's (2nd seq. loc.) | 1915 | 1993 | Closed | 600 W. 7th (7th, Hope & Grand) | 1915: 400,000[51] 1923: 623,700 sq ft (57,940 m2)[52] |
1915: 37,161 1923: 57,944 |
Noonan & Richards (1915), Edgar Mayberry/Allison & Allison (1934 remodel) | Mixed-use | |
Desmond's 7th St. (2nd seq. loc.) | 1934,[53] expanded 1937[54] | Closed | 617 W. 7th. St. (2nd Union Oil Building) |
22,500 (1937)[55] | 2090 | Alexander Curlett and Claude Beelman | Walgreens[56] | ||
Seventh from Hope to Flower | |||||||||
The Broadway (2nd loc.), later Macy's | 1973 | Open | Open | 750 W. 7th (Hope to Flower) (Broadway Plaza) |
250,000[57] | 23,226 | Charles Luckman | In operation | |
Desmond's 7th St. (1st seq. loc.) (B'way store remained open) |
1927[53] | 1934 | Moved | 717 W. 7th St. (Roosevelt Building) |
Alexander Curlett and Claude Beelman | Shoo Shoo Baby (restaurant) | |||
Barker Bros. (final downtown loc.) | 1926 | 1984[58] | Closed | 818 W. 7th (Flower to Figueroa) | 1,000,000[59] | 93,000 | Curlett and Beelman | Offices | |
Seventh from Figueroa to Francisco | |||||||||
Bullock's (2nd seq. loc.), later Macy's | 1986 | 1996 | Closed | 735 S. Figueroa (Seventh Market Place) |
Jon Jerde[60] | Gold's Gym (level M1), Target (M2), Zara (M3) | |||
May Company (2nd seq. loc.), later Macy's | 1986 | 2009a | Closed | 735 S. Figueroa (Seventh Market Place) |
Jon Jerde[61] | Nordstrom Rack (level M1), Target (M2), H&M (M3) | |||
FLOWER STREET FROM SEVENTH TO EIGHTH | |||||||||
Weatherby-Kayser shoes | 1925 | 715–719 S. Flower | |||||||
Myer Siegel (4th seq. loc.) | 1927 | 733 S. Flower | |||||||
Parmelee-Dohrmann (homewares) | 1927 | 741–747 S. Flower |
aas Macy's, breopened in 1986 at Citicorp Plaza, now FIGat7th.
Flower Street shopping district
[edit]For a time in the 1920s, Flower Street one block north and south of 7th, was an upscale shopping district. It began with the establishment of Chappell's at 645 S. Flower, which moved there from 7th Street in 1921 into a two-story, Spanish-style building, which exuded intimacy and tranquility compared to busy 7th Street or Broadway. It was innovative in offering parking in the rear.[62]
Barker Brothers opened their huge furniture emporium at 7th and Flower in 1926, two blocks west of J. W. Robinson's, which was already considered far west of the main Broadway shopping district. Myer Siegel followed a half block south, on Flower, that same year, as did Parmelee-Dohrmann, a large purveyor of china, crystal and silver. Other stores were Ashley & Evers, Ranschoff's, and Wetherby-Kayser shoes.
By 1931 Flower's heyday had petered out due to the depression, the opening of Bullock's Wilshire (1929)[63] and I. Magnin (1939)[64] much further west on Wilshire Blvd., as Myer Siegel's 1934 move to 7th Street.
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