Hollywood Plaza Hotel
- Architect
- Walker & Eisen
- Year
- 1925
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Hollywood Plaza Hotel is a ten-story Renaissance Revival hotel at 1633–37 North Vine Street, just south of Hollywood and Vine, designed by Walker & Eisen and opened October 15, 1925, one of four major hotels built in Hollywood during the 1920s. It cost $750,000 to build, $250,000 over budget, and became a favored venue for film, radio, and theatre stars through the 1950s before its 1970s conversion into a retirement home.
the building
Klempter's Blue Plate Cafe. The hotel's ground-floor restaurant, Klempter's Blue Plate Cafe, sat so close to the Famous Players-Lasky studio that it became a de facto studio annex; Greta Garbo was a regular, and it was often the first place staff looked for an actor who couldn't be found on set.
Rooftop neon and garden plazas. The 198-room hotel opened with a lobby designed by George G. Benedict, two garden plazas, and an outdoor pool ringed by date palms, with the name 'Plaza' spelled out on a large neon sign atop the roof.
the style
Walker & Eisen's Renaissance Revival design gave the hotel the ornamented, classically derived street presence typical of Hollywood's boom-era hotels.
More on Renaissance Revivalsignificance
The hotel is both a National Register of Historic Places contributing property and a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
nearby
- Hallmark Building
- Leed's Building
- Avalon Hollywood
- Regal Shoes Building
- Julian Medical Building
- Capitol Records Building