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This building served as a Consulate for the Canadian Government before it was abandoned in the late 1960s. It lay fallow for 15 years with pigeons as the only residents until it was rehabbed.

This loft building was renovated c. 1983 by a group of young urban homesteaders who favored vintage office and industrial furniture and a battered mid-century, high-tech aesthetic. Dealers on Melrose Avenue, LaBrea Boulevard and Beverly Boulevard sold Emeco chairs and Herman Miller furniture to young people setting up households for the first time. At this time, various industrial buildings in Central Los Angeles were being rehabbed to produce relatively large live-work spaces. Contemporaneously, Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, Michael Rotondi, Eric Owen Moss and other architects of the "Santa Monica School" were becoming interested in the rugged, post-industrial landscapes of various parts of the sprawling region. This 1980s return to downtown was fueled by the historic preservation movement's success during the 1960s-1970s and the inclusion of new cultural amenities there, most notably the Museum of Contemporary Art's "Temporary Contemporary" warehouse/gallery renovated by Frank O. Gehry (b. 1929) (later renamed the "Geffen Contemporary,") and opened in Fall 1983. Gehry created this new art space by remodeling the Union Hardware Buildings (1947) designed by the firm of A.C. Martin and Partners.

PCAD id: 18698