756 South Broadway (NE corner of 8th and Broadway), 13 floor "Los Angeles Investment Building", built in 1912 for $1 million, architect Ernest McConnell, later named the "Charles C. Chapman Building" after Chapman purchased the building in 1920.
Recently converted to residential lofts by
Killefer Flammang Architects (
Emporis)
Photo ca.1913-1918
USCDL
Photo circa 1940s.
USCDL
Photo circa 1960s.
USCDL
Marble interior hallways.
Chapman Flats on flickr
Brass elevator doors.
Killefer Flammang Architects
http://www.antiquehomestyle.com/plan...ment/index.htm
The Los Angeles Investment Company was a substantial landholder in the LA area and was a major player in the development of the city and the surrounding area from about 1899 to 1913, designing homes with Ernest McConnell as the supervising architect. The company published about ten collections of bungalow house plans, supplied the land to build the houses on and also all the materials to build the houses. In 1914 the president of the company, Charles A. Elder, was convicted of fraud and the company went out of business.
Charles Clarke Chapman (1853–1944) was the first mayor of Fullerton, California and a relative of John Chapman, the legendary "Johnny Appleseed." He was a native of Illinois who had been a Chicago publisher before settling in Southern California.