BUNKER HILL: STYLE AND SUITABILITY Preview

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Angels Flight Lower Gateway

The lower gateway of Angels Flight, placed here in 1996, one-half block south of Third and Hill, where the flight lived from 1901-1969.The upper and lower termini were designed by Train & Williams and built in 1910.

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Savoy Garage

Built as a public garage by Harris Realty, this 1923 structure is the oldest remaining part of old Bunker Hill. It was designed by the titans of LA architecture Curlett & Beelman, who also designed the 1926 May Company garage at 6th & Hill. This is the oldest remaining parking garage in all of Los Angeles.

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Ruins of Fremont Hotel

Here, the remains of the retaining wall from the Fremont Hotel, designed by John C Austin. The hotel, which opened in September 1902, was the first structure on Bunker Hill to be designed in the Mission style, with red-tiled towers and scalloped parapets. Other Mission buildings to follow include the Hotel Munn (A. L. Haley, 1903), the St. Regis (G. A. Howard, 1904), and the Ems (J. C. Newsom, 1905).

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Bunker Hill Steps

Designed by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and completed in 1990."Halprin likened the role of a landscape architect to that of a choreographer, aiming to guide human movement through the environment in positive ways. As a monumental landscape feature linking two spheres together, his Bunker Hill Steps have proven to be a successful and visually striking path for moving people between old and new Los Angeles." —Los Angeles ConservancyThe Engstrum Hotel is by Robert Brown Young, built in 1910. Retaining wall is Carleton Winslow, built in the the summer of 1930. The Engstrum and retaining wall are demolished in 1988 in preparation for the erection of the Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb/Ellerbe Becket First Interstate Bank tower.The Sunkist Building, Walker & Eisnen, 1935, is demolished in early 1972.

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One Bunker Hill

The Southern California Edison Company Building, James & David Allison, 1930. The Edison was of the first all-electrically heated and cooled buildings constructed in the western United States.The fourteen-story, steel-framed building follows a classically inspired Art Deco design. The lower three stories are of solid limestone, while the upper stories and central tower are faced with buff-colored terra cotta. On the façade, the spandrels contain a cubic Art Deco pattern, repeated in the central tower, lobby floor and elevator ceilings. On the entry façade allegorical figures by sculptor Merrell Gage represent, light, power and hydroelectric energy. In the two-story lobby, classical elements are treated with an Art Deco flavor.Below the thirty-foot high coffered ceiling, the floor and walls are composed of at least seventeen different types of marble. At the end of the lobby is a mural by Hugo Ballin titled "Power."

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Richfield Building

The site of the former Richfield Oil bldg. Stiles Clements of Morgan Walls and Clements was chief architect. 1929.Black gold! Machine age! It is demolished in 1968-9.