Roosevelt Building
- Architect
- Claud Wilbur Beelman
- Year
- 1926
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
Completed in 1926 by the firm of Curlett & Beelman, the Roosevelt Building is a 12-story, E-shaped tower on 7th Street in Downtown Los Angeles, with a roughly 250-foot facade along 7th Street and a 137-foot facade on Flower Street. Built by the J.V. McNeil Company, which erected several of the city's high-rises in this era, it was later converted to residential lofts.
the building
Terra cotta stonework. The facades are faced in off-white terra cotta manufactured by Gladding, McBean & Company, molded to imitate rusticated stone blocks — a common trick of the era that let a steel-frame tower read as solid masonry.
the style
The building follows a classic three-part commercial massing of base, shaft, and capital, dressed in Italian Renaissance Revival ornament — cited as an excellent example of the style and of the Curlett & Beelman partnership's work.
More on Renaissance Revivalthe architect
Claud Wilbur Beelman designed the building together with Alexander Curlett, as the firm of Curlett & Beelman, a partnership noted for its downtown Los Angeles high-rises.
significance
The Roosevelt Building was individually designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #355 in 1988 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
nearby
- Fine Arts Building
- General Petroleum Building
- Engine Company No. 28
- South Park Lofts
- Southern California Gas Company Complex
- California Club Building