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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]

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7th Street Looking West from Spring, Los Angeles, Calif. (Tichnor Bros. postcard, 1930s)

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.

Landmarks

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In order from west to east.[2]

Harbor Freeway to Figueroa

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Wilshire Grand, orig. Hotel Statler, demolished
  • Wilshire Grand Center, north side, tallest building in the Western United States. Located on the site of the original 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, originally called Seventh Market Place, housing both a Bullock's and May Co. branch in the 1980s-1990s

Figueroa to Flower

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Barker Brothers Building
  • 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

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Roosevelt Building
  • 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 original restored mosaic marble floors in the lobby.
  • The Bloc Los Angeles, originally 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

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J. W. Robinson's Building, 600 W. 7th St.
  • 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 original 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 originally with a Broadway department store branch replacing its downtown flagship on Broadway (the street)

Grand to Olive

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Brockman Building
  • 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

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Ville de Paris (department store) under construction 1916

7th & Broadway

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Loew’s State Theatre

Broadway to Spring

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A.G. Bartlett Building

Spring to Main

7th & Main

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Los Angeles Board of Trade Building
  • 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

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This is a table of the openings of department stores along the 7th Street and Broadway corridors:

More information Store, Opened ...
Store Opened Left Moved or closed? Location Sq ft Sq m Architects Current use
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 Marché1907Liquidated[21]430 S. Broadway
(Bumiller Building)		Morgan & Walls
The Hub
(2nd seq. loc.)		19071916Moved430 S. Broadway
(Bumiller Building)		Morgan & WallsIn 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[30] 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)[31]		 Morgan, Walls & Clements Mixed-use
Desmond's 1924 1972[32] Closed 616 S. Broadway
(Desmond's Building)		 85,000[33] 7897 A. C. Martin[34] Renovated 2019 as office space, a restaurant and a rooftop bar.[33]
Harris & Frank
2nd concurrent location		 1947 1980[35] Closed 644 S. Broadway
(J. E. Carr Building)		 Robert Brown Young[36]
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[37]		 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)
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[38][39]
1930, >1,000,000[40]		 1906: 44,823, 1930 92,903 Alfred F. Rosenheim Under renovation to become tech campus
Eastern Columbia 1930 1957[41] 849 S. Broadway through to Hill
(Eastern Columbia Building)		 1930: 275,650[42] (expanded in 1950)[43] 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[44] 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[45] Closed 520–530 W. 7th at Grand[46][47][48][49]
(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[50]
1923: 623,700 sq ft (57,940 m2)[51]		 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,[52] expanded 1937[53] Closed 617 W. 7th. St.
(2nd Union Oil Building)		 22,500 (1937)[54] 2090 Alexander Curlett and Claude Beelman Walgreens[55]
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[56] 23,226 Charles Luckman In operation
Desmond's 7th St. (1st seq. loc.)
(B'way store remained open)		 1927[52] 1934 Moved 717 W. 7th St.
(Roosevelt Building)		 Alexander Curlett and Claude Beelman Shoo Shoo Baby (restaurant)
Barker Bros. (final downtown loc.) 1926 1984[57] Closed 818 W. 7th (Flower to Figueroa) 1,000,000[58] 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[59] 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[59] 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
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aas Macy's, breopened in 1986 at Citicorp Plaza, now FIGat7th.

Flower Street shopping district

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.[60]

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)[61] and I. Magnin (1939)[62] much further west on Wilshire Blvd., as Myer Siegel's 1934 move to 7th Street.

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