AKA: May Company Department Store , Los Angeles, CA; People's Store, Los Angeles, CA
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - department stores
Designers: Martin, Albert C., Sr., Architect (firm); Rosenheim, Alfred Faist, FAIA, Architect (firm); Albert Carey Martin Sr. (architect); Alfred Faist Rosenheim (architect)
Dates: constructed 1907
5 stories
801 South Broadway
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Site bounded by West 8th Street and South Hill Street, West 9th Street and South Broadway;
Building History
This Five-story steel-frame department store was located on a site later used by the May Company Department Store chain. A.C. Martin and A.F. Rosenheim served as Associatde Architects on the Hamburger Department Store #1 in Downtown Los Angeles.
Annex also built, c. 1908?
Demolished;
PCAD id: 1897
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