Garfield Building
- Architect
- Claud Wilbur Beelman
- Year
- 1930
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
- Collection
- l.a. deco
The Garfield Building is a thirteen-story Art Deco office tower in downtown Los Angeles's Jewelry District, designed by Claud Wilbur Beelman and built between 1928 and 1930. It served as a working office building for decades before its 1991 sale, after which it sat empty, its 99,970 square feet of rentable space now used mainly for filming and events. The building is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #121 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
the building
Entrance canopy. The main entrance on West 8th Street is marked by an elaborate wrought-iron canopy decorated with floral and grapevine patterns, set above a terrazzo sidewalk.
Art Deco lobby. Inside, the lobby is finished with polished nickel fittings, display cases, and Gothic-style chandeliers in gold and silver tones, with walls and floors clad in alternating materials.
the style
The Garfield Building carries its Art Deco ornament through to the smallest details, from the floral and grapevine grillwork at the street entrance to the nickel fittings and chandeliers inside the lobby.
More on Art Decosignificance
The Garfield Building is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #121, designated in 1982, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Vacant since a 1991 sale, it is now used mainly as a filming location amid the Jewelry District's ongoing revival of lofts, studios, and shops.
nearby
- Charles C. Chapman Building
- Eastern Columbia Building
- Giannini Place
- Brockman Building
- Orpheum Theatre
- Southern California Gas Company Complex