Leed's Building

Architect: S. Charles Lee
Style: International Style
City: Los Angeles, CA

Leed's is a one-story retail building at 6352 West Hollywood Boulevard, built in 1935 for the Leed's Shoe Store and designed by renowned theater architect S. Charles Lee. Its International Style design of concrete and glass was folded into the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

the building

Cantilevered corner entrance. The building pairs an integral vertical sign with intersecting parapets and a cantilevered front corner entrance, built of concrete with extensive glazing.

the style

An International Style storefront built for a shoe retailer, its glass-and-concrete construction and geometric parapets show the style applied to Hollywood Boulevard's commercial strip.

the architect

S. Charles Lee was a renowned theater architect; Leed's, completed in 1935, was one of his commercial designs.

significance

Listed as a contributing property when the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

nearby

Julian Medical Building 280 ft · Streamline Moderne · 1934
Hallmark Building 300 ft · Chateauesque · 1922
Regal Shoes Building 440 ft · Streamline Moderne · 1939
Hollywood Plaza Hotel 440 ft · Renaissance Revival · 1925
United States Post Office 0.1 mi · Art Deco · 1937
Avalon Hollywood 0.1 mi · Spanish Colonial Revival · 1927

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