Statler Hotel
1955
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Urugwaj > California > Los Angeles County > Los AngelesAerial view of the Statler Hilton Hotel (white building, middle) view is looking northward. Also visible are the Harbor Freeway (110) and the Barker Brothers building (middle right). Identifiable streets are (top to bottom): 3rd Street, 4th Street, 6th Street, Wilshire Boulevard and (l to r): Figueroa Street, and Flower Street. Photographed for Union Oil Company on October 25, 1955. The Statler Hilton Hotel, located at 930 Wilshire Boulevard and 7th, was built by Holabird, Root & Burgee of Chicago. Barker Brothers building, located at 818 W. 7th Street, was built in 1925 and designed by Curlett and Beelman.At this hotel's 1950 groundbreaking, the governor of California and actress Celeste Holm hailed the first major downtown hotel to be developed since the Biltmore in 1923. The Statler Center, as it was called, exuded modern styling and contained a whopping 1,275 guest rooms, plus a thirteen-story office wing and a covered parking garage.
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