Uncategorized

Constructed at the then almost unheard of cost of $2 million, the Alexandria Hotel opens as LA’s most elegant hotel, featuring a beautiful banquet hall with a stained glass ceiling.

The Hamburgers / May Company Department Store is erected. The enormous Beaux Arts structure covers nearly half the block, and is for many years the largest department store on the Pacific Coast. 

The Farmers and Merchants Bank Building opens. Designed in the Classical Revival style by Morgan and Walls, the Bank is the first incorporated bank in Los Angeles.

The Huntington Building opens & serves as offices and depot for the Pacific Electric Railway line. At the time of completion it is the largest office building in Los Angeles.

The Banco Popular Building is opened by Hermann W. Hellman, a merchant and banker who emigrated to Los Angeles from Bavaria. The 8-story building is designed in the Beaux Arts style. 

Angels Flight, a 315 foot funicular linking the Historic Core to Bunker Hill, opens. Built by Colonel J.W. Eddy, lawyer, engineer and friend of President Abraham Lincoln, Angels Flight is said to be the world’s shortest incorporated railway. It is estimated that Angels Flight has carried more passengers per mile than any other railway in the world, over a hundred million in its first fifty years. It is to become one of Los Angeles’ first Historic-Cultural Monument

Los Angeles Town Square is established; it will later be renamed Pershing Square.

The Van Nuys Building (now Barclay Hotel) opens at Main St & 4th St as one of the finest hotels in Los Angeles. It becomes the first hotel to provide telephone and electric service to every room. There are thirty-two rooms on each floor with sixty private baths and ten public baths.