Regal Shoes Building
- Architect
- Walker & Eisen
- Year
- 1939
- Style
- Streamline Moderne
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
Regal Shoes is a two-story Streamline Moderne building at 6349 W. Hollywood Boulevard, designed in 1939 by Walker & Eisen, the Los Angeles firm also behind the Fine Arts Building, Hollywood Plaza Hotel, Taft Building, and United Artists Theatre. In 1996 the Church of Scientology bought it for the church's architecture and design team, and a Sea Org logo now marks the exterior. It's a contributing property in the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District, added to the National Register in 1985.
the building
Streamline Moderne facade. The building wraps a rounded corner and carries porthole windows, banded windows, and a terrazzo entry — the full kit of Streamline Moderne retail detailing on a modest two-story frame.
the style
Regal Shoes is a compact example of Streamline Moderne, the Depression-era style that borrowed rounded corners, portholes, and banded glazing from ocean-liner and aircraft design to signal modernity on an everyday commercial building.
More on Streamline Modernethe architect
Walker & Eisen was a prolific Los Angeles firm responsible for many of the city's notable buildings, including the Fine Arts Building, Hollywood Plaza Hotel, Taft Building, and United Artists Theatre.
significance
Regal Shoes was listed as a contributing property when the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The Church of Scientology purchased the building in 1996; its Sea Org logo now appears on the exterior.
nearby
- Julian Medical Building
- Hallmark Building
- Leed's Building
- Avalon Hollywood
- Halifax Apartments
- Hollywood Plaza Hotel