Hotel Glendale
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
Hotel Glendale, now known as Glendale Flats, rose during a boom when the city's population more than doubled from about 14,000 to 42,000 between 1920 and 1924. Realtor Charles W. Ingledue's East Glendale Advancement Association pushed the project, but after four failed attempts to sell stock in a planned "Glendale Hotel Company," money troubles forced the group to scale back an ambitious 1923 design to a six-story building for both short-term and long-term guests.
the building
Scaled-back ambition. What opened was smaller than the original 1923 plans called for, yet the six-story hotel was still the largest building in Glendale at the time and only the second in the city to top four stories.
the style
The hotel was built in the Beaux-Arts style, giving the scaled-back building a formal civic presence in a city still selling itself as California's fastest-growing.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
Architects Arthur G. Lindley and Charles R. Selkirk designed Hotel Glendale, and were working concurrently on another notable Glendale building during the same stretch of the city's 1920s boom.
significance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 7, 1994, the building now operates as Glendale Flats, a later name for what was once the city's tallest and largest hotel.
nearby
- James Daniel Derby House
- Avenel Cooperative Housing Project
- McTernan Residence
- Lovell House
- Ennis - Brown House
- Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Research House