AKA: Pierce Brothers and Company, Funeral Home, Los Angeles, CA

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - commercial buildings

Designers: Moore, Lester S., Architect (firm); Lester S. Moore (architect)

Dates: constructed 1912

814 South Flower Street
Downtown, Los Angeles, CA 90017-4608

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Building Notes

According to theLos Angeles Times, the Pierce Brothers and Company Building was, "The first chapel to be devoted exclusively to funeral services ever constructed on the Pacific Coast...." (See "First on Coast," Los Angeles Times, 08/04/1912, part VI, p. 3.) It was a brick building plastered in the Mission Style; the chapel had seating for 200, that could be increased to 400.

PCAD id: 422