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[1] [2] This article covers that area, between the Plaza, 3rd St., Los Angeles St., and Broadway, during the period 1880 through the period of demolition (1920s–1950s). At the time (1880–1900s), the area was referred to as the business center, business section or business district.
Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the central business district of the city of Los Angeles. It is part of the Central Los Angeles region and covers a 5.84 sq mi (15.1 km 2 ) [ 3 ] area. As of 2020, it contains over 500,000 jobs and has a population of roughly 85,000 residents, [ 4 ] with an estimated daytime population of over 200,000 people prior ...
Downtown Los Angeles: 789: Southern California Gas Company Complex: 800–820 S, Flower St. Downtown Los Angeles: 795: Santa Fe Inbound Freight House: 355 S. Santa Fe Downtown Los Angeles: 806: Kerckoff Building and Annex: 558–564 S. Main St. Downtown Los Angeles: 825: Chinatown West Gate: 954 N. Hill St. Chinatown
Olvera Street, commonly known by its Spanish name Calle Olvera, is a historic pedestrian street in El Pueblo de Los Ángeles, the historic center of Los Angeles.The street is located off of the Plaza de Los Ángeles, the oldest plaza in California, which served as the center of the city life through the Spanish and Mexican eras into the early American era, following the Conquest of California.
In Downtown Los Angeles, there was an archaeological excavation in 1996 on the site of Union Station which took place during the demolition of the parking structure as well as a massive excavation of the basement. Artifact deposits were typically trash pits and privies from the brothels and boarding houses that formerly existed in that area. In ...
Downtown Los Angeles: The Brockman Building is a 12-story Classical and Romanesque Revival building located in Downtown Los Angeles. Built in 1912, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
1873 map of the Plaza, including course of Zanja Madre Los Angeles Plaza (1876) Los Angeles Plaza and Pico House (1890) Los Angeles Plaza (c. 1905) Los Angeles Plaza (1930). In 1814, when the foundation of the La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles was laid, it, too, fronted on the old plaza; but the great flood of 1815 changed the Los Angeles River’s channel from the eastern ...
The area was first settled by Spanish colonizers, who named it "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula," which translates to "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Porciúncula River."