Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building
- Architect
- William and Alexander Curlett
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building is a castle-like structure on Beverly Boulevard, built in 1928 for muralist Anthony Heinsbergen and designed by Curlett & Beelman in a Late Gothic Revival and Romanesque style. Heinsbergen had it built with bricks salvaged from the old Los Angeles City Hall while his company was painting murals inside the new one. For more than 50 years it housed his mural-painting business, which employed 185 artist-painters producing murals for movie palaces around the city.
the building
The cylindrical tower. A prominent cylindrical tower anchors the building, its arch filled with a Renaissance-style mural, while friezes around the facade depict artisans at work — a fitting sign for a company that painted the murals inside Los Angeles's movie palaces.
Built from old City Hall bricks. Heinsbergen had the building constructed with bricks salvaged from the demolished old Los Angeles City Hall, even as his company painted murals inside the new City Hall going up across town.
the style
Curlett & Beelman gave the building a Late Gothic Revival and Romanesque treatment, complete with a castle-like tower and stone friezes — a theatrical choice for the headquarters of a company that supplied murals to Los Angeles's movie palaces.
More on Gothic Revivalthe architect
Claud Beelman, half of Curlett & Beelman, went on to have at least 11 of his buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
significance
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and is also a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
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