Hotel

#242: King Edward Hotel (Skid Row)

#242: King Edward Hotel (Skid Row)

December 8, 2024
Architecture
The King Edward Hotel was one of four hotels designed by John Parkinson along a three-block stretch of 5th Street in the early decades of the 1900s. It's home to the infamous dive bar the King Eddy Saloon, and housed a subterranean speakeasy during Prohibition – still intact, a century later.
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#187: Aloha Apartments (Hollywood)

#187: Aloha Apartments (Hollywood)

January 8, 2024
Architecture
The Aloha Apartments were built in 1928 as a hybrid apartment building/hotel. There were a few starlets that lived here, but most of the Aloha’s tenants were middle-class professionals. It's a great example of how the housing market was changing to meet the needs of all the different kinds of people flowing into Hollywood during the 1920s and ‘30s.
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#152: Commercial Club (Downtown)

#152: Commercial Club (Downtown)

May 20, 2023
Architecture
The Commercial Club building was the headquarters of a short-lived social club from the 1920s and early '30s. It was designed by the venerable Curlett & Beelman, whose expertise in handsome high-rises helped define the downtown skyline. After a decade of disuse, it was transformed into the swanky Proper Hotel, while retaining many of its historic quirks.
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#124: Aztec Hotel (Monrovia)

#124: Aztec Hotel (Monrovia)

October 30, 2022
Architecture
Ghosts! Hookers! Cultural appropriation! They're all part of the fascinating history of the Aztec Hotel, an eye-popping 1925 Mayan revival hotel in Monrovia (now closed) designed by the idiosyncratic architect Robert Stacy-Judd.
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#81: Hotel Glendale

#81: Hotel Glendale

March 20, 2022
Architecture
Once the tallest building in Glendale, the beaux arts Hotel Glendale stands as a monument to the ambitious development that the city underwent in the 1920s
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