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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Interlude – Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel
Although Paradise Leased is essentially a blog dedicated to Southern California’s historic architecture on occasion we like to veer from the text if we feel it merits doing so. I recently rediscovered a set of photos and plans from one of … Continue reading
Posted in Lost Hollywood, Paradise Elsewhere
Tagged Architectural Record, Frank Lloyd Wright, Imperial Hotel, Japan, Louis Sullivan, Tokyo
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So Long Statler – A Cheerless End for L.A.’s Atomic Age Hotel
Like the condemned prisoner it is, the old Statler Center/Statler Hilton/Omni/Wilshire Grand Hotel at the corner of Wilshire and Figueroa @ 930 Wilshire Boulevard, at this hour stoically sits awaiting its fate. Unlike any human counterparts, however, there’s no chance … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown, Lost Hollywood
Tagged 1337 Carroll Avenue, 930 Wilshire Boulevard, A.A. Nickman, A.C. Martin Partners, Arthur F. Douglas, Celeste Holm, Conrad Hilton, Dwight Eisenhower, Earl Warren, Holabird Root & Burgee, Hotel Statler, J.C. Meacham, Mary E. Foy, Richard M. Nixon, Samuel Calvert Foy, Statler Hilton, William H. Thomas, Wilshire Grand Hotel, Xavier Cugat
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