Johnny's Steak House Building

Year: 1930
Style: Chateauesque
City: Los Angeles, CA

Johnny's Steak House is a one-story building at 6553 W. Hollywood Boulevard, designed by architect Henry L. Gogerty and built in 1930. It's a rare châteauesque specimen on a boulevard otherwise dominated by Spanish and Art Deco storefronts.

the building

Steep mansard roof. The building carries its château references in a steep mansard roof punctuated by four dormers, curved pediments, a prominent roofline, and walls of simulated stone—full-dress French provincial detailing wrapped around a single-story steak house.

the style

Châteauesque draws its vocabulary from French Renaissance chateaux, prized for steep roofs and towering silhouettes; here it announces itself through the mansard roofline and dormers on an otherwise modest one-story building.

significance

It's listed as a contributing property in the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

nearby

S. H. Kress and Co. Building 470 ft · Art Deco · 1935
United States Post Office 0.2 mi · Art Deco · 1937
Grauman's Egyptian Theatre 0.2 mi · Egyptian Revival · 1922
El Cabrillo 0.2 mi · Spanish Colonial Revival · 1928
Julian Medical Building 0.2 mi · Streamline Moderne · 1934
Regal Shoes Building 0.3 mi · Streamline Moderne · 1939

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