PCAD - Chapman Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA

3405 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90010-2240

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The Chapman Park's property was bounded by Wilshire Boulevard, Sixth Street, Mariposa Avenue and Alexandria Avenue.

Samuel James Chapman erected the first Chapman Hotel building in 1925. The hotel also included over a dozen bungalows spread across its 5-acre grounds. The Chapman Park Hotel was located directly across the street from the original Brown Derby Restaurant.

The noted Los Angeles interior furnishings company, Barker Brothers, furnished the public spaces of the Chapman Park Hotel.

A Pueblo Revival Style addition was built in 1936, designed by Los Angeles architect, Carleton Monroe Winslow.

Demolished 1967. In 1968, the Equitable Building was erected on this site.

PCAD id: 1402

Publications

"Chapman Park Hotel", Architect and Engineer, 50, 06/1925. "Pueblo--Chapman Park hotel, Los Angeles offers unique housing plan for its guests", Architect and Engineer, 23-32, 06/1937. "Trip to Mexico in connection with his Chapman Park Hotel project", Architect and Engineer, 58, 10/1936. "Plans for Pueblo unit of Chapman Park Hotel, Los Angeles", California Arts and Architecture, 23, 06/1936. "Bowing out--demolition work on the Chapman Park Hotel", Los Angeles Times, 1, 07/09/1967. "Architect seeks old works of art in Mexico", Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer, 11, 09/11/1936.

Chapman Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA (1925)

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