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Mayfair Hotel

Architect
William and Alexander Curlett
Style
Renaissance Revival
City
Los Angeles, CA
Mayfair Hotel
Photo: Downtowngal, CC BY-SA 3.0
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The Mayfair Hotel is a 15-story Renaissance Revival hotel in Westlake, commissioned by the Sun Realty Company in 1926 and designed by Curlett & Beelman at a cost of $2,500,000. Promoters advertised it as the tallest hotel west of the Mississippi when it opened on February 1, 1927.

the building

Opening night banquet. The hotel opened with a banquet for hotel-industry members featuring live music from the Rainbow Isle Orchestra; inaugural manager J.J. Hernan hosted a preview event for local journalists, and the Los Angeles Daily Times praised its views of the city and mountains.

the style

Curlett & Beelman's Renaissance Revival design gave the Mayfair the ornamented, classically derived facade typical of the era's prestige hotels, built to match the civic grandeur promoters claimed for its record height.

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the architect

William and Alexander Curlett practiced together as Curlett & Beelman, a Los Angeles firm active in the 1920s; the Mayfair was built alongside two of the Sun Realty Company's other commissions, the Roosevelt Building and the Chester Williams Building.

significance

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Mayfair closed as a hotel in 2020 and was converted to homeless housing.

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