Avalon Hollywood
- Architect
- Carl Jules Weyl
- Year
- 1927
- Style
- Spanish Colonial Revival
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
Avalon Hollywood is a historic nightclub at 1735 N. Vine Street, near Hollywood and Vine and across from the Capitol Records Building. It opened January 24, 1927, as the Hollywood Playhouse, designed in the Spanish Baroque style by architects Henry L. Gogerty and Carl Jules Weyl in 1926-1927, and holds 1,500 people.
the building
A stage that changed names. During the Depression the theater operated under the WPA's Federal Theatre Project, hosting government-sponsored productions. It was renamed the El Capitan Theatre in the 1940s for a long-running live burlesque variety show, then later became the Jerry Lewis Theatre, the Hollywood Palace, and simply The Palace before taking its current name.
the style
Weyl and Gogerty dressed the theater in Spanish Baroque ornament, a style suited to Hollywood's 1920s taste for movie-palace theatricality along Vine Street.
More on Spanish Colonial Revivalthe architect
Carl Jules Weyl (1890-1948) designed the theater together with Henry L. Gogerty in 1926-1927.
nearby
- Capitol Records Building
- Hallmark Building
- Regal Shoes Building
- Halifax Apartments
- Hollywood Plaza Hotel
- Leed's Building