The Homer Laughlin Building, at 317 South Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles, is a landmark building best known for its ground floor tenant the Grand Central Market, the city's largest and oldest public market that sees 2 million visitors a year.[1]
Ville de Paris department store in the Homer Laughlin Building, 1904
Built by retired Ohio entrepreneur Homer Laughlin (founder of the Homer Laughlin China Company), the Homer Laughlin Building was Los Angeles's first fireproofed, steel-reinforced structure. The original six-story building was designed in 1896 by architect John B. Parkinson.[2] Smith & Carr were the building contractors.[3] In August 1898 Coulter's Dry Goods (later department store) opened here.[4][5]
In 1905 the structure was expanded through to Hill Street, called either the Laughlin Annex or the Lyon Building. This design by architect Harrison Albright was the first reinforced concrete building in Los Angeles.[6] The first post-expansion tenant was the Ville de Paris department store, replaced in 1917 by the Grand Central Market, which still occupies the ground floor of the building. The location was chosen because of its proximity to the Angels Flight Railway allowing for easy access to the well-to-do citizens of Bunker Hill.
In the 1920s the building served as an office for the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.[7]
Grand Central Market
The original building was built in the Beaux Arts style, but subsequent modifications drastically changed its appearance including the addition of a tile façade in the 1960s which hid the second-story windows. Along with the adjacent Million Dollar Theater Building and the Bradbury Building, the Homer Laughlin Building and the Grand Central Market underwent a major renovation in the 1990s under the direction of developer Ira Yellin and architect Brenda Levin. As part of the rehabilitation residential units were added, creating downtown Los Angeles's first true mixed-use developments in decades.[8]
In 2013, under the leadership of Ira Yellin's widow, Adele Yellin, the Market began welcoming a new wave of vendors who are transforming the nearly century-old food arcade into a major culinary destination.[9] The ongoing revitalization of the iconic food arcade has garnered numerous media accolades including being named one of the “Hot 10” restaurants nationwide by Bon Appetit magazine in 2014.[10][11]
Referencesedit
^Vincent, Roger (September 12, 2019). "They can't all be Grand Central Market: Does L.A. have too many food halls?". Los Angeles Times. from the original on January 9, 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
^"The Laughlin Building". Newspapers.com. 2020-03-29. from the original on 2020-11-16. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
^"Clipped From Los Angeles Herald". August 8, 1898. p. 5. from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved October 8, 2022 – via newspapers.com.
^"Clipped From The Los Angeles Times". February 6, 1904. p. 7. from the original on December 7, 2021. Retrieved October 8, 2022 – via newspapers.com.
^Los Angeles from the mountains to the sea: with selected biography ..., Volume 2 By John Steven McGroarty, 1920, page 176
^Frank Lloyd Wright--the lost years, 1910-1922: a study of influence By Anthony Alofsin
^Groves, Martha (February 27, 1989). "A Vision for L.A.'s Broadway : Developer Ira Yellin Hopes to Tie Together the New Downtown". Los Angeles Times. from the original on 2015-02-27. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
^"Adele Yellin: Reinvesting in Grand Central Market and Revitalizing LA's Historic Broadway". The Planning Report. April 11, 2014. from the original on February 14, 2015. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
^Knowlton, Andrew (August 19, 2014). "The Hot 10 2014: Grand Central Market, Los Angeles (No. 10)". Bon Appetit Magazine. from the original on February 27, 2015. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
^Khouri, Andrew (April 2, 2015). "Transformation in store for L.A.'s historic core". Los Angeles Times. from the original on October 8, 2022. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
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