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38-408: Spring Street may refer to: Spring Street (Los Angeles) , USA Spring Street (Manhattan) , New York City, USA Spring Street, Melbourne , Australia Spring Street, Singapore Spring St (website) , a US based lifestyle website Subway and trolley stations [ edit ] Spring Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line) at Sixth Avenue; serving

76-507: A chain of junior department stores for men's clothing across the region. The triangular space where Spring and Main Streets came together at the south side of Temple Street was the site of Temple Block : actually a collection of different structures that occupied the block bounded by Spring, Main and Temple. The first or Old Temple Block built by Francisco (F. P. F.) Temple in 1856, was of adobe, two stories, facing north to Temple. This

114-815: A key role in the retail history of Los Angeles , as it was the first home to several upscale retailers who would become big names in the city: Desmond's (1870–1882) and Jacoby Bros. (1879–1891). It was also home to the Odd Fellows , the Fashion Saloon, the Temple and Workman Bank, Slotterbeck's gun shop, the Wells Fargo office. The northeast corner was home to Adolph Portugal' s dry goods store (1874-1879?), Jacoby Bros. (1879–1891) and Cohn Bros. (1892–1897), in succession. In 1925-7 this block and other surrounding areas were demolished to make way for

152-475: A neighborhood of hoodlums, derelicts and winos—a neighborhood of echoing buildings full of absolutely nothing above the ground floor." Since the early 1980s, South Spring Street has been the subject of numerous redevelopment projects. In recent years, numerous art galleries have moved into the old financial district, which is now known as Gallery Row. Many of the old bank buildings have also been converted into upscale lofts. As wealthier residents have moved into

190-538: A wagon to film the bustling action along South Spring Street. In the early 1900s, the city center began spreading south, and the city's banks and financial institutions began concentrating along South Spring Street. The first two important buildings to make the move south were the Hellman and Continental Buildings, with the Continental Building being considered the city's first skyscraper. In 1911,

228-640: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Spring Street (Los Angeles) Spring Street in Los Angeles is one of the oldest streets in the city. Along Spring Street in Downtown Los Angeles , from just north of Fourth Street to just south of Seventh Street is the NRHP-listed Spring Street Financial District , nicknamed Wall Street of

266-493: The A , ​ C , and ​ E trains, New York City Spring Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) at Lafayette Street; serving the 4 , ​ 6 , and <6> trains, New York City Spring Street (San Diego Trolley station) , California See also [ edit ] Spring Street Financial District , Los Angeles, California Spring Street Academy , Nova Scotia, Canada Spring Street Freight House , Jeffersonville, Indiana Topics referred to by

304-617: The American Institute of Architects (predecessor to today's AIA Seattle chapter). Parkinson invested in real estate and he was both architect and developer of the Seattle Athletic Club Building (1893–94; destroyed). His investments left him financially vulnerable when the Panic of 1893 , the severe national depression, curtailed construction after June 1893. Parkinson's schools position was terminated by

342-609: The Homer Laughlin Building at Third Street and Broadway. His 1901 Susana Machado Bernard House and Barn has been designated as a Historic Cultural Monument and listed in the National Register of Historic Places . His design for the 1904 Braly Block at Fourth Street and Spring became the first " skyscraper " built in Los Angeles. It held the distinction of being the tallest structure in town until

380-536: The Los Angeles Railway . Today, this view would be of the 2009 LAPD Headquarters taking up the entire block on the left and on the right, the 1935 Los Angeles Times Building, and behind it, the 1948 Crawford Mirror Addition building. First Street east of Spring: Widney Block (i.e. Joseph Widney ), built in 1883, along the north side. The main Olmsted & Wales bookstore was located in

418-576: The Los Angeles Times boasted about the building boom on Spring Street: The visitor to this city can at this moment observe skyscrapers in all stages of construction. It is a study which will provide the most comprehensible kind of answer to the query as to why Los Angeles is leading San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Detroit, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Boston, Buffalo and all other cities of anything near her in building activity as revealed by

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456-400: The 1920s. However, this area was the heart of the city's business district around the 1880s and 1890s , nearly all of which was demolished. Along the west side of Spring Street were the following buildings. Spring was realigned in the 1920s and now runs west of these sites, and the sites where these buildings once stood are now part of the full city block on which City Hall stands: At

494-575: The English construction trades demanded more time and service for advancement. He decided that his then capabilities would be more appropriate to the less-structured opportunities in America. Parkinson went to California , settling in Napa where he again worked as a stair-builder, and he took on architectural commissions in his spare time, designing some of his first commercial projects including an annex to

532-614: The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission. Due to the large percentage of historic bank and financial buildings that remain intact in the district, the area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The Los Angeles Conservancy offers walking tours of the Spring Street Financial District on the fourth Saturday of each month at 10 a.m.; the tour lasts approximately 2-1/2 hours and costs $ 10 for

570-838: The Olympia Hotel, Olympia (1889; destroyed), the Calkins Hotel, Mercer Island (1889; destroyed), and several residences. After the Great Seattle Fire of 6 June 1889, he secured several important business blocks, the Butler Block (1889–90; altered), and the Seattle National Bank Building, later called the Interurban Building (1890–92), an exemplary work of Romanesque Revival architecture . In 1891, Parkinson won

608-537: The Seattle School Board early in 1894. In 1893 and 1894, he entered several competitions, but failed to win any commissions. Faced with no projects, nor prospects for work in Seattle, John Parkinson moved to Los Angeles in 1894 and opened his architecture office on Spring Street between Second and Third Streets. By 1896, Parkinson had designed the city's first Class "A" fireproof steel-frame structure:

646-683: The Seattle Seminary (1891–93)--the first building at Seattle Pacific University (now known as Alexander Hall); and the Jesuit College and Church (1893–94; altered)--the first building at Seattle University (now known as the Garrand Building). Parkinson frequently published renderings of his buildings in the professional architectural press. He was an early member of the Washington State Chapter of

684-522: The West, lined with Beaux Arts buildings and currently experiencing gentrification. This section forms part of the Historic Core district of Downtown, together with portions of Hill , Broadway , Main and Los Angeles streets. Originally named Calle Primavera , Spring Street was renamed in 1849 by city surveyor Edward Ord . He named the street after a woman he was wooing, one whom he'd given

722-827: The Wilson Block is prominent on the left, as is the Nadeau Hotel on the right. In the foreground we can see the Los Angeles National Bank to the left and the Larronde Block to the right. From First to Second streets, Spring Street is still a busy shopping district, though Broadway is also just becoming popular for more upscale shopping. An electric streetcar heads to Griffin Avenue in Montecito Heights , on what would become Line 2 of

760-547: The block in the mid-1880s. Four buildings have stood here in succession: It was replaced by the 1948 Crawford Addition building, part of the Times Mirror Square complex, currently vacant. On the west side: Two theatres together called the Perry Buildings: On the east side: John and Donald Parkinson John Parkinson (12 December 1861 - 9 December 1935)

798-757: The city's most enduring landmarks. Found on the roster are: the Campus Master Plan and several noted buildings of the University of Southern California (1919–39) [1] , the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1923 and 1930–31), Los Angeles City Hall (1928, with Albert C. Martin Sr./structural and John C. Austin/working drawings), Bullocks Wilshire (1929) and Union Station (1939). John Parkinson completed an important early renovation of Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles. Their work

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836-534: The completion of City Hall in 1928. In 1905, Parkinson formed a partnership with G. Edwin Bergstrom which lasted for ten years. Parkinson and Bergstrom became the dominant architectural firm for major structures in Los Angeles. Bergstrom left to establish his own successful practice in 1915. John Parkinson was joined in 1920 by his son, Donald B. Parkinson (1895—1945). Parkinson & Parkinson designed many of Los Angeles' finest buildings, which became some of

874-503: The cultural wasteland it was alleged to be." He hailed the district's "financial palaces" as "a solid architectural achievement" which give the street "beauty, strength, unity and dignity." Notable buildings in the district (from north to south) include: Just south of the Historic District but included here for convenience. Built in 1924, the 12-story Beaux-Arts building at 810 S. Spring St. (southeast corner of 8th St.)

912-441: The current Los Angeles City Hall . Along the south side of Temple Block was Market Street , a small street running between Spring and Main. Taking up the small block immediately south of Temple Block between Market and Court streets, facing both Spring and Main streets, were two buildings in succession: The image at above left looks south past the intersection of First and Spring sometime around 1900–1906. The spire of

950-764: The design competition for the B.F. Day School (1891–92; altered), located in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. Thereafter the Seattle School Board appointed Parkinson as the Seattle Schools Architect and Superintendent. Parkinson was responsible for all Seattle Schools projects over the next several years, including the Pacific School (1892–93; destroyed) and the Cascade School (1893–94; destroyed). He also designed

988-460: The district remains its period architecture. Many of the Beaux Arts façades along Spring Street remain virtually intact, making the district a popular shooting location for motion picture and television productions seeking authentic period cityscapes. In 1985, noted Los Angeles Times columnist Jack Smith pointed to the Spring Street Financial District as proof that "Los Angeles was never

1026-572: The district's lofts, older residents and artists have complained about the increased rents. One artist who had lived in the district for years said: The real problem with downtown lately, Gronk and his friends half-jokingly agreed is 'those people.' Westsiders. Trust-fund babies. New tenants who demand their bohemian pleasures be liberally sweetened with suburban amenities. Landlords who previously recruited artists to help make downtown 'safe' for gentrification, then jacked up their rents so only lawyers and screenwriters could afford it. The strength of

1064-442: The early 1980s, South Spring Street had become known for "transients who sleep in doorways and urinate on sidewalks." In 1982, the Los Angeles Times commented on the district's decline from "Wall Street of the West" to a blighted area with empty office buildings lining both sides of the street: "When the banks and law firms moved to the 'Gold Coast' typified by Arco Towers , six blocks to the west, Spring Street plummeted to become

1102-409: The general public (reduced rate for Conservancy members). The city's central business district (CBD) in the 1880s and 1890s lay further north near South Spring and Temple Streets. The street can claim credit as the birthplace of the motion picture business in Los Angeles. In 1898, Thomas Edison filmed a 60-second film titled "South Spring Street Los Angeles California", mounting a giant camera on

1140-459: The important banks and financial institutions being concentrated there. At least ten of the buildings in the district were designed in whole or in part by John Parkinson , who designed many of the city's landmark buildings in the early 20th century, including the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum , Los Angeles City Hall , Bullocks Wilshire , and Union Station . Ten of the buildings in the district have been designated as Historic-Cultural Monuments by

1178-422: The monthly expenditures for construction work. The building boom along South Spring Street continued into the 1920s as the population and economy of Los Angeles boomed. South Spring Street remained the city's financial center even after World War II. In the 1960s, many of the banks and financial institutions began moving to the western part of the downtown area, along Figueroa Street and Wilshire Boulevard. By

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1216-431: The nickname “mi primavera, my springtime”. Spring Street consists of 3 sections: The historic district includes 23 financial structures, including the city's first skyscraper, and three hotels all located along a stretch of South Spring Street from just north of Fourth Street to just south of Seventh Street. In the first half of the 20th century, this stretch of Spring Street was the financial center of Los Angeles, with

1254-605: The northwest corner of Franklin and Spring stood two buildings in succession, the Rocha Adobe, then the Phillips Block. The site now lies under the current course of Spring Street, which was straightened, i.e. realigned to run further west, in the 1920s. At the southwest corner of Franklin Street from 1894–1905 was Harris & Frank 's London Clothing Co. with its landmark clock. Harris & Frank went on to become

1292-714: The original Bank of Napa building (1888, Demolished). Considering Napa a "dead town", Parkinson ventured north to Seattle in February 1889, where he opened his first architectural practice after failing to secure a position as a draftsman. In March he entered a partnership with Cecil Evers , but this ended little more than a year later; Parkinson would leave Napa for good in September 1889 but would retain professional relationships with local mills to supply lumber and trim. Parkinson's early projects in Puget Sound included

1330-423: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Spring Street . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring_Street&oldid=1088627856 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1368-760: Was born in the small village of Scorton , in Lancashire , England in 1861. At the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed for six years to Jonas J. Bradshaw , an architect and engineer in nearby Bolton , where he learned craftsmanship and practical construction. He attended night school at Bolton's Mechanics Institute to study architectural drafting and engineering. Upon completion of his apprenticeship at age 21, he immigrated to North America as an adventure; he built fences in Winnipeg and learned stair building in Minneapolis . He returned to England only to discover that

1406-548: Was designed by Walker & Eisen as the headquarters of National City Bank of Los Angeles, and was designated a Historic Cultural Landmark (HCM #871) in 2007. It was converted from offices to 93 residential units plus retail space in 2008, and was renamed the National City Tower. North of the historic district, Spring Street passes through the Civic Center district along government buildings built since

1444-447: Was incorporated into a later, expanded Temple Block in 1871, and then demolished. George P. McLain wrote that upon his arrival in the town in 1868, Temple Block had been the undisputed center of commerce and social life in the town. Even into the early 1880s, it was considered the city's most stately building. It housed many law offices, including those of Stephen M. White , Will D. Gould and Glassell , Chapman and Smith . The block had

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