Charles C. Chapman Building
- Architect
- Ernest McConnell
- Year
- 1913
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Charles C. Chapman Building is a thirteen-story Beaux-Arts high-rise at 756 South Broadway, built between 1911 and 1913 by the Los Angeles Investment Company's in-house architect, Ernest McConnell, and originally named for that company. In 1920, Charles Chapman, the former mayor of Fullerton and first chairman of the board of Bank of America, bought the building for $1.6 million and headquartered Bank of America there.
the building
Bank headquarters. Globe Savings Bank moved its headquarters into the building the year it was completed in 1913, and after Chapman's 1920 purchase it went on to house Bank of America's headquarters.
the style
The Chapman Building's Beaux-Arts facade is typical of the grand commercial high-rises built along Broadway during the corridor's boom as downtown Los Angeles's premier retail and office district.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
Ernest McConnell worked as the in-house architect for the Los Angeles Investment Company, which commissioned the building that carried its name before Charles Chapman's 1920 purchase renamed it after himself.
significance
The building is a contributing property in the Broadway Theater and Commercial District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and was individually designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #899 on December 5, 2007. It was converted into a 168-unit condominium complex that same year.
nearby
- Orpheum Theatre
- Eastern Columbia Building
- Garfield Building
- A.G. Bartlett Building
- Los Angeles Board of Trade Building
- Banks-Huntley Building