Spring Street (Los Angeles)
Spring Street in Los Angeles is one of the oldest streets in the city. Along Spring Street in Downtown Los Angeles, from just north of Fourth Street to just south of Seventh Street is the NRHP-listed Spring Street Financial District, nicknamed Wall Street of the West,[2][3] lined with Beaux Arts buildings and currently experiencing gentrification. This section forms part of the Historic Core district of Downtown, together with portions of Hill, Broadway, Main and Los Angeles streets.
Location
354–704 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, California
1902
Morgan, Walls & Morgan; Parkinson, John
Chicago, Classical Revival, Moderne
August 10, 1979
Name[edit]
Originally named Calle Primavera, Spring Street was renamed in 1849 by city surveyor Edward Ord. He named the street after a woman he was wooing, one whom he'd given the nickname “mi primavera, my springtime”.[4]
Spring Street consists of 3 sections:[5]
Hellman Building, northeast corner of 4th
Corner of 4th & Spring in the 1890s
Continental Building at #408 when home to the German American Savings Bank, 1908
Continental Building, LA's first skyscraper
Title Insurance Building at #433
Crocker Bank
Rowan Building, 131 W. 5th
Moderne exterior of the Title Insurance Building at #416
Alexandria Hotel, 210 W. 5th
Security Building at #510
Los Angeles Theater Center at #514
Spring Arcade Building at #541
Lloyd's Bank at #548
1904 panorama including the 600 block of Spring St.; the streetcar is traveling south on Spring, crossing 6th St.
Pacific Southwest Bank at northwest corner of 6th
Hotel Hayward at #601
Los Angeles Stock Exchange at #618
Decorations above entrance to E.F. Hutton Building at #623
California Canadian Bank hat #625
Mortgage Guarantee Building at #626
Banks Huntley Building at #632
Barclay's Bank at #639
Bartlett Building at #651
Bank of America at #650
Financial Center Building at #704
Van Nuys Building, 210 W. 7th
Looking northeast on Spring Street from First Street, 1880s. Asher Hamburger's Peoples Store at center. Towers of the Baker Block are visible in the distance.
Looking northeast on Spring Street from First Street, 1890s. Hamburger's Peoples Store now in the Phillips Block at center. Electric streetcars replaced horsecars and the street is paved. Today, this is the site of City Hall.
View south on Spring St. from Temple, c.1883–1894. The towers in the background are the Phillips Block; the two larger buildings to its right are the Jones Block and (with turrets) City of Paris. Far right: Allen Block and Harris & Frank's London Clothing Co., with its landmark clock.
