Hotel Chancellor
- Year
- 1924
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
Built in 1924 in Mid-Wilshire, the Hotel Chancellor rose a block east of the famous Ambassador Hotel, giving it prime company on one of LA's grandest hotel rows. Architect Milton M. Friedman designed it in the Beaux-Arts style as a five-story hotel with a lobby, lounge, and ballroom on its ground and basement levels. It later converted from hotel to apartments and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
the building
A hotel turned home. The building originally held 114 hotel units across its four upper floors; these were later reconfigured into 106 apartment units as the Chancellor shifted from transient lodging to residential use, all within a footprint of about 150 by 60 feet.
the style
Its Beaux-Arts detailing reflected the era's taste for dressing up commercial hotels in the formal, symmetrical vocabulary borrowed from Parisian architectural training, a style favored for buildings meant to project establishment and permanence along Wilshire's hotel corridor.
More on Beaux-Artssignificance
The Hotel Chancellor was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 on architectural grounds, recognizing its Beaux-Arts design even after its conversion from hotel to apartment use.
nearby
- Immanuel Presbyterian Church
- Brown Derby
- Bullock's Wilshire Building
- First Baptist Church of Los Angeles
- Equitable Life Building
- Chapman Park Market Building