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Sovereign Hotel

Architect
Kurt Meyer-Radon
Style
Spanish Colonial Revival
City
Los Angeles, CA
Sovereign Hotel
Photo: Los Angeles, CC BY-SA 3.0
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The Sovereign is a five-story, 86-unit hotel and apartment building in Santa Monica, built in 1928 by architect Kurt Meyer-Radon and the Anglo American Building Company. It houses bachelor, studio, and one-bedroom units behind a dense, unrestrained Spanish Colonial Revival facade.

the building

The 1930s dining wing. In the 1930s the building's operation shifted toward a more conventional hotel format, and a small wing was added that may have held a dining room. The street-level sign spelling out 'Sovereign Hotel' also dates from this era, replacing whatever identified the building in its apartment-only years.

the style

Architectural historians David Gebhard and Robert Winter, writing in Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide, noted there was 'no reticence' in how the architect deployed Spanish Colonial Revival forms and details here—the building reads as a full catalog of the style rather than a restrained sampling of it.

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significance

The Sovereign Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

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