Le Trianon Apartments
- Architect
- Leland A. Bryant
- Year
- 1928
- Style
- Chateauesque
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
Le Trianon Apartments, at 1750-1754 N. Serrano Avenue in Hollywood, was commissioned in 1928 by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks and designed by Leland A. Bryant in the French-Norman/Chateauesque Revival style. Pickford, Fairbanks, and Bryant all lived in the building, whose name misidentifies it with a Neoclassical structure at Versailles. It's individually designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #616.
the building
Tourelles and a candle-snuffer roofline. The six-story tower and three-story wing carry steep pitched slate roofs, round tourelles capped with conical 'candle-snuffer' roofs, tall chimneys, and narrow-windowed wall dormers, set off by an ivory white facade and a grand patio entrance.
The rooftop sign. A neon sign atop the six-story tower was designated alongside the building itself as part of Historic-Cultural Monument #616 in 1995.
the style
Bryant worked in the French-Norman/Chateauesque Revival mode, borrowing the turrets and steep slate roofs of a Loire Valley chateau for a Hollywood apartment house — a theatrical choice for a building financed by two of silent film's biggest stars.
More on Chateauesquesignificance
Designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #616, including its rooftop sign, on June 23, 1995. The building sold for $5.4 million in 2004 (about $9.2 million in 2025 dollars) and was listed for sale again in 2012.
nearby
- Hollywood Western Building
- The Bricker Building
- Sowden house
- Victor Rossetti Residence
- Old Warner Brothers Studios
- Hollyhock House