7th Street (Los Angeles) – Wikipedia

Opened Left Moved or closed? Store Floor area (gross) Location Architects Current use SPRING ST. BETWEEN TEMPLE AND SECOND 1884 1898 Moved to B’way Coulter’s Hollenbeck Block, SW corner 2nd & Spring Historic Broadway station 1888 1908 Moved to 8th/B’way Hamburger’s Phillips Block, Franklin & Spring Burgess J. Reeve Site of City Hall 1889 1910 Moved to B’way Mullen & Bluett 101–5 N. Spring Empty lot 1891 1900 Moved to 3rd/B’way Jacoby Bros. 128–134(–138) N. Spring at Court Site of City Hall 1895 ? The Hub Bullard Block, Spring at Court Morgan & Walls Site of City Hall BROADWAY north of 4th St. 1893 1898 Moved to 317 B’way Ville de Paris^[3]
(A. Fusenot Co.) Potomac Block, 221-3 S. Broadway Block, Curlett & Eisen added to Coulter’s late 1907, demolished 1958, now a parking lot 1895 1915 Moved to 7th St. Boston Dry Goods
(J.W. Robinson Co.) 237–241 S. Broadway Theodore Eisen and Sumner Hunt
(architects of the Bradbury Building) Parking lot 1898 1905 Moved to 200 block of B’way Coulter’s (1898–1905) 317–325 S. Broadway through to 314–322 Hill Street^[4]
Homer Laughlin Building John B. Parkinson became Ville de Paris
Now Grand Central Market 1899^[5] 1935-6 Moved to 605 B’way^[6][7] Jacoby Bros. 60,000 sq ft (5,600 m²) 331-333-335 S. Broadway John B. Parkinson^[8] Was “Boston Store” in late 1930s.^[9] Currently independent retail. 2 of 4 floors were removed. 1899 ? Moved to 455 B’way then 617 B’way I. Magnin/
Myer Siegel Irvine Byrne Block,
251 S. Broadway^[10] Sumner Hunt Wedding chapel 1905 1917 Moved to 7th St. Coulter’s 157,000 sq ft (14,600 m²)^[11] Potomac Block: 225-7-9 S. Broadway through to 224-6-8 S. Hill St. Late 1907 added 219-221-223 S. Broadway to store. Block, Curlett & Eisen demolished, site of parking lot 1905 1917 Moved to 7th St. Ville de Paris 96,000 sq ft (8,900 m²)^{[citation needed]} 317–325 S. Broadway through to 314–322 Hill Street^[4]
Homer Laughlin Building John B. Parkinson Grand Central Market 1905 1917 Moved to 7th St. J. J. Haggarty Co. “New York Store’ 337–9 S. Broadway Independent retail. Only 2 stories remain. 1909 ? ? J. M. Hale (Hale’s) 341-343-345 S. Broadway^[12] retail, top floors were removed BROADWAY south of 4th St. 1896 1973 Moved to B’way Plaza The Broadway Dept. Store^[13] 1924, 577,000 sq ft (53,600 m²)^[14] SW corner 4th & Broadway, later through to Hill Junipero Serra State Office Building 1904 ? ? Silverwoods 1920: 115,420 sq ft (10,723 m²)^[15] 556 S. Broadway (NE corner of 6th) Broadway Jewelry Mart 1905 ? Closed Fifth Street Store
(Steele, Faris, & Walker Co.)
Later called Walker’s 1917: 278,640 sq ft (25,887 m²)^[16] SW corner 5th & Broadway Replaced existing store with new building in 1917^[16]
Building later housed Ohrbach’s 1906 1986 Moved to FIGat7th Hamburger’s
After 1925: May Company 1906: 482,475 sq ft (44,823.4 m²)^[17][18]
1930, >1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m²)^[19] SW corner 8th & Broadway
by 1930, entire block 8th/9th/Broadway/Hill Under renovation to become tech campus 1907 1983 Closed, opened 1986 at FIGat7th Bullock’s 1907: 350,000 sq ft (33,000 m²)
1934: 806,000 sq ft (74,900 m²)^[20] NW corner 7th & Broadway
by 1934, most of the block 6th/7th/Broadway/Hill Parkinson & Bergstrom St. Vincents Jewelry Mart 1907 1908 Central Department Store^[21] 85,000 sq ft (7,900 m²), ^[22] 609–619 S. Broadway Samuel Tilden Norton Demolished, now site of Los Angeles Theatre 1910 1960s Mullen & Bluett 610 S. Broadway
(Walter P. Story Bldg.)^[23] Morgan, Walls & Clements Mixed-use 1917 Blackstone’s 118,800 sq ft (11,040 m²)^[24] 901 S. Broadway (SE corner 9th) John Parkinson Building became The Famous,
now residential, retail 1924 1972^[25] Abandoned Downtown L.A. Desmond’s 85,000 sq ft (7,900 m²)^[26] 616 S. Broadway A. C. Martin^[27] Renovated 2019 as office space, a restaurant and a rooftop bar.^[26] 1930 1957^[28] Eastern Columbia 1930: 275,650 sq ft (25,609 m²)^[29] (expanded through to Hill St. in 1950)^[30] 849 S. Broadway through to Hill Claud Beelman luxury condos 1936^[7] 1938^[31] Company liquidated Jacoby Bros. 605 S. Broadway^[7] became a branch of Zukor’s (1940),^[32] now mixed-use 1947 1980^[33] Abandoned Downtown L.A. Harris & Frank 2nd downtown location 644 S. Broadway
(Joseph E. Carr Bldg.) Robert Brown Young^[34] SEVENTH STREET 1915 1993 Abandoned Downtown L.A. J. W. Robinson’s 1915: 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m²)^[35]
1923: 623,700 sq ft (57,940 m²)^[36] 7th, Hope & Grand Noonan & Richards (1915), Edgar Mayberry/Allison & Allison (1934 remodel) Mixed-use 1917 1933 B. H. Dyas liquidated Ville de Paris, from 1919 B. H. Dyas 420 W. 7th (SE corner Olive) Dodd and Richards L.A. Jewelry Mart 1917 1938 Moved to Miracle Mile Coulter’s 500 W. 7th (SW corner Olive) Dodd and Richards Mixed-use 1917 1963^[37] Abandoned Downtown L.A. Haggarty’s Brockman Building,
7th & Grand^{[38][39][40][41]} George D. Barnett
(of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett) Apartments 1926 1984^[42] Barker Bros. Abandoned Downtown L.A. 23 acres (1,000,000 sq ft; 93,000 m²)^[43] 818 W. 7th (Flower to Figueroa) Curlett and Beelman Offices 1973 open* The Broadway 250,000 sq ft (23,000 m²)^[44] Broadway Plaza 750 W. 7th (Hope to Flower) Charles Luckman Macy’s 1986 1996 Became duplicate Macy’s, closed Bullock’s Seventh Market Place now FIGat7th Jon Jerde^[45] Gold’s Gym (level M1), Target (M2), Zara (M3) 1986 2009^a Became duplicate Macy’s, closed May Company Nordstrom Rack (level M1), Target (M2), H&M (M3)