Textile Center Building
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Textile Center Building is a 12-story brick loft at Eighth and Maple streets in the Fashion District, built in 1926 by Lloyd & Casler, Inc. as a center for wholesale garment manufacturing. It was developed by Florence C. Casler, one of the era's few women real estate developers and contractors, who kept her own office in the building at the height of her career.
the building
Grand opening. More than 6,000 people turned out for the building's formal opening in April 1926, an event that included a fashion show of apparel manufactured in Los Angeles -- a statement of intent for a building meant to anchor the city's wholesale garment trade.
Scale. A $400,000 bond offering in May 1927 put the building's total floor area at 88,704 square feet, all of it built to lease to wholesale garment manufacturers.
the style
Designed by William Douglas Lee, the building combines Gothic Revival detailing with Italian Renaissance Revival massing on its brick facade.
More on Renaissance Revivalsignificance
The building was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #712 in 2002 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places; it has since been converted to condominiums.
nearby
- Maxfield Building
- Grether & Grether Building
- Los Angeles Board of Trade Building
- A.G. Bartlett Building
- Charles C. Chapman Building
- Orpheum Theatre