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Originally Posted by AlvaroLegido
I guess you are suspecting right, Ethereal.
If we look to the Fremont Hotel (1880's) and then to the Bradbury Building (1893), we notice that the simplification of lines increases every ten years (to the 1970's I guess). The Westmore looks simpler than the Bradbury. So I'd say it was built in the 1900's.
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It was there for sure in 1909 near that group of 8 or 9 churches that had migrated to this area from Pershing Square and environs:
http://www.bigmapblog.com/2011/birds...f-los-angeles/
There was a fashion for the classical just after the turn of the twentieth century: Angel's Flight Station House, The Pacific Mutual Building and (stretching it a bit) Central Station.
But anyway, I thought the Alexandria stole every other hotel's thunder when it was built in 1905.