Hotel Rosslyn Annex
- Architect
- The Parkinsons
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Hotel Rosslyn Annex is a Beaux-Arts building at 5th and Main streets, designed by the firm Parkinson & Parkinson and built in 1923 as a twin to the 800-room Rosslyn Hotel built across the street in 1914. Both buildings were topped with giant glowing rooftop signs spelling their names inside a heart shape, honoring the Hart brothers who owned them. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
the building
The Million Dollar Hotel sign. The annex's rooftop signboard reading "New Million Dollar Hotel" became a landmark in its own right, appearing in the pilot episode of The Amazing Spider-Man and in music videos for U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name" and Stone Temple Pilots' "Interstate Love Song."
A film born from a video shoot. Bono conceived the story for Wim Wenders' 2000 film The Million Dollar Hotel while filming the U2 video on the roof, and the crew later shot the movie inside the hotel despite its dilapidated state at the time.
the style
Parkinson & Parkinson designed the annex in the Beaux-Arts style, matching the older Rosslyn Hotel it was built to echo across the street.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
Parkinson & Parkinson was a prominent Los Angeles architecture firm; the Hotel Rosslyn Annex was one of their downtown Beaux-Arts commissions.
significance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013, the hotel closed in 1959, reopened in 1979, and today operates as low-price housing.
nearby
- Security Building
- Kerckoff Building and Annex
- San Fernando Building
- Continental Building
- Arcade Theatre
- Judson Rives Building