PCAD - Gates Hotel, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA

Drawing by a Los Angeles Times artist of William Curlett's Gates Hotel, Los Angeles, 1911; from "Half-Million Dollar Hotel for Sixth and Figueroa Streets," Los Angeles Times, 10/05/1911, part II, p. 1

Postcard view of the Gates Hotel, Los Angeles, c. 1915; from Brent C. Dickerson, California State University, Long Beach, "A Visit to Old Los Angeles: 15. Figueroa Street" accessed 11/30/2016

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830 West 6th Street
Downtown, Los Angeles, CA 90017

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The Gates Hotel, at 828-836 West 6th Street, occupied the southeast corner of Figueroa Street and 6th Street.

Overview

The Gates Hotel block occupied the southeastern corner of 6th and Figueroa Streets. The San Francisco-based architectural firm of Curlett and Son planned the hotel for Carroll W. Gates. The venerable William Curlett (1846-1914) and his son, Alexander (1881-1942), worked with the Los Angeles firm of Eisen and Son, Architects on the Gates Hotel design; this was one of the last large-scale designs in Los Angeles by William Curlett. According to a contemporary newspaper account, "The site is at present occupied by an old three-story frame building." (See "Half-Million Dollar Hotel for Sixth and Figueroa Streets," Los Angeles Times, 10/05/1911, part II, p. 1.)

Building History

Carroll W. Gates commissioned the architects Curlett and Son and Eisen and Son to build this large hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, CA, c. 1913.

Demolition

The Gates Hotel was razed in 1972 to make way for the Northwestern Mutual Building, originally called the Linder Plaza Building.

PCAD id: 20769

Publications

"Linder Plaza Rises on Gates Hotel Site", Los Angeles Times, 26, 1972-08-13. Hebert, Ray, "Gates Hotel; New Building Will Replace Landmark", Los Angeles Times, 2, 1972-04-12. "Gates Hotel Deal Closed; Transaction in Los Angeles Involves $2,000,000", Los Angeles Times, 1926-03-01. "Another Big Hotel Project", Los Angeles Times, 1, 1912-03-24. "Gates Hotel", Out West, 164, 1917-05.

Gates Hotel, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA (1912-1913) demolished

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