Listed in The National Register of Historic Places
Code | Landmark name | Image | Selected date | Locality | Neighborhood | Description |
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Broadway Theater and Commercial District | 300-849 S. Broadway | Broadway Theater District | First and largest historic theater district on the National Register; with 12 movie palaces in 6 blocks, the largest concentration of movie palaces in the United States | |||
Spring Street Financial District | 354-704 S. Spring St. | Spring Street Financial District | Once known as the "Wall Street of the West", the old financial district includes the city's first skyscraper and more than 20 other historic buildings along a three-block stretch of Spring | |||
Little Tokyo Historic District | 1995 | 301-369 First and 106-120 San Pedro Sts. | Little Tokyo | Cultural center for Japanese Americans in Southern California, former site of the first Nishi Honganji Buddhist Temple | ||
Board of Trade Building | 111 W. 7th St. | Downtown Los Angeles | Beaux-Arts highrise designed by Claud Beelman used as headquarters for California Stock Exchange starting in 1930 | |||
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Los Angeles Branch | 409 W. Olympic Blvd. | Downtown Los Angeles | Original Los Angeles branch building of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco built in 1929; designed by The Parkinsons in a Moderne style | |||
Million Dollar Theater | 307 S. Broadway | Broadway Theater District | One of the first movie palaces built in the United States | |||
Santa Fe Freight Depot | 970 E. 3rd St. | Downtown Los Angeles | Former freight depot built in 1922, converted in 2000 into campus for architectural school; the quarter-mile long building stretches further than the height of the Empire State Building | |||
United States Courthouse (Los Angeles) | 312 N. Spring St. | Downtown Los Angeles | ||||
United States Post Office - Los Angeles Terminal Annex | 900 Alameda St. | Downtown Los Angeles | Mission Revival building designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood; LA's central mail processing facility from 1940–1989 | |||
Plaza Substation | 10 Olvera St. | Old Plaza District | Electrical substation that was part of the "Yellow Car" streetcar system operated by the Los Angeles Railway from 1904–1963 |
Read more about this topic: List Of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments In Downtown Los Angeles
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