Judson Rives Building
- Architect
- Charles Ronald Aldrich
- Year
- 1906
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Judson-Rives Building is a ten-story Beaux-Arts high-rise at 424 South Broadway, designed by Charles Ronald Aldrich and built in 1906 for the Trustee Company of Los Angeles, which kept its own offices on the second floor. It took its current name in 1928 when new owner Judson Rives bought the building and renamed it after himself, installing new elevators and remodeling the lobby the following year.
the building
Neon marquee. A multi-colored neon marquee was added to the building in the 1930s and swapped for a plainer sign in the 1970s, part of the building's run as a storefront in the Broadway Theater District.
Fire and steel walls. A fire around 1966 badly damaged the interior, leading workers to erect steel stud walls set in from the original perimeter walls; those steel walls were later dismantled, leaving their bare frame exposed. The corridors were remodeled again in 1983 under a fire department order.
the style
The building's Beaux-Arts styling reflects its origins as an early twentieth-century commercial high-rise in the Broadway Theater District, one of many such buildings lining the historic core of downtown Los Angeles.
More on Beaux-Artssignificance
The building is individually designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #881 and is a National Register of Historic Places contributing property, listed as part of the Broadway Theater and Commercial District added to the National Register in 1979; the individual monument designation followed on July 17, 2007.
nearby
- Title Guarantee and Trust Company Building
- Broadway Mart Center
- Continental Building
- Security Building
- Hotel Rosslyn Annex
- Arcade Theatre