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.
• †(Dagger) indicates a street that no longer exists

To be read like a map:

For the area to the north, see Los Angeles Plaza Historic District

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/ Cosmopolitan Hotel/ St. Elmo Hotel (1850s–?) -1st Downey Block (?–1871) 2nd Downey Block, (1871–) later Post Office and Courthouse (1910-1937). Now Spring Street Courthouse (1940- ).

M A I N S T R E E T

—Now US 101 —Stearns House (1835-1877)/ —BAKER BLOCK (1875–1942)/ —Downey Bldg. (1878-1957) —Grand Central Hotel (1876–?) —Pico Bldg./ Farmers & Merchants Bank (1867–1957) —Bella Union/St. Charles Hotel (1835–1940) —Ducommun Block/Security Pacific Bank Now Los Angeles Mall.

—Now US-101 freeway. —Arcadia Block (1858–1927)/ —Hellman Block (1870–?) Now Los Angeles Mall

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 —L.A. Savings Bank —Commercial Bank/First National Bank —New Lanfranco Block (1888) Now Los Angeles Mall

TEMPLE

TEMPLE

TEMPLE

Hall of Records (1962)

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 Block (1858/ 1871–1927)

REQUENA ST.

(MARKET)†

United States Hotel (1861–1939)

Now City Hall East (1972)

Parker Center (former LAPD HQ)

MARKET ST.†

Court Flight Funicular (1905–1943)

PHILLIPS BLOCK (1887–1912), home to Hamburger's Peoples Store (1888–1908)

Clock Tower Courthouse (1858-1895) Bullard Block (1895-1925)/ Now City Hall

Hall of Records (1911-1973)

COURT ST.†

Now Los Angeles Mall. (entire block)

FRANKLIN ST.†

—#128–138 Jacoby Bros. DS (1879–1900) —Los Angeles National Bank/ Equitable Building (1906-1920s)/ Now Circle Park at City Hall.

—Hall of the Amigos del País (1844-?)/ McDonald Block —#121–127 Jacoby Bros. DS (1879–1900) —Lichtenberger Block Now Circle Park at City Hall.

German-American Savings Bank (1894–1906)

Tajo Building (1896–mid-20th c.) Now Law Library.

Los Angeles Times Building (#3, 1912-1938) Now vacant lot.

Larronde Block (1892-c.1930)/ Calif. State Bldg. (1931–1976) Now vacant lot.

FIRST ST.

FIRST ST.

FIRST ST.

FIRST ST.

FIRST ST.

#107: Old Junípero Serra State Office Bldg. (1958–2006) U.S. Courthouse ("First Street Courthouse") (entire block, 2016)  #127: Mason Opera House (1902-1956)

Culver Block/ Now Times Mirror Square Pereira building (1973).

Nadeau Hotel (1882–1932)/ Now Times Mirror Square Kaufmann building (1935).

Wilson Block (1886–?) Now LAPD HQ

Natick House (1883–1950 JP) Now LAPD HQ

#110: Grand Opera House/ Orpheum Theatre #1   Now Caltrans (entire block)

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./ Haig M. Prince Bldg. Later 7-story parking garage (1948–1997) Now park at U.S. Courthouse.

#138: Hellman Bldg. (1897-1959) Now 221 W. 2nd parking garage.

Bryson-Bonebrake Block (1888) Now Times Mirror Square Crawford Bldg. (1948– )

—Corfu Hotel —Burdick Block (1888-?) a.k.a. American Bank Bldg. Now LAPD HQ

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–?)

Hollenbeck Hotel Nolan, Smith & Bridge Bldg. (#200–4) Now Historic Broadway station under construction. 222 W. 3rd (30-story tower, planned)

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) —#212–6 Crocker Bldg. (Victor Clothing 1926–1964) —#218–224 Copp Bldg. (Pig 'n Whistle) —#226–8 City Hall (1888-1928) —#240–6 Hoss Bldg. (Natatorium, Victor Clothing 1964–2001)

Now 213 S. Spring parking garage. —#227: 1st Los Angeles Theatre/ 2nd Orpheum Theatre/ Lyceum Theatre (1888–1941) —#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

Stimson Bldg. (1893–1963)

Now misc. retail

Now parking garage.

THIRD ST.

THIRD ST.

THIRD ST.

THIRD ST.

THIRD ST.

Hotel Ramona (?-1903)/ 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.

For the area to the south, see Historic Core