This is part of a panoramic photo. Across the center of the photo, right to left, we have the Highland Villa and its fan-shaped rooftop sign at the NW corner of 1st and Hill, then the El Moro (the part in front that looks like a house being the former Sale Mansion), the Moore-Cliff apparently being built, 133 S. Hill which came to be known as The Annex, and the last building with a staircase in front of it, the Hotel Locke.
In the upper left corner is the Crocker Mansion, the Angel's Flight Observation Tower, and either Sinai or Olivet. Below those, with its dome in front of the trees, at 209-11 S. Hill is the Hotel Lincoln. In the foreground left of center is the old Jail/Police Station (stone front & arched window) on 1st Street:
USC Digital Library --
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co.../id/1227/rec/7
Los Angeles Then and Now (1897) @ Hathi Trust --
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...ew=1up;seq=139
Priors on the Jail/Police Station:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7413
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7433
Police Station on 1906 Sanborn (Hill St. at top of map):
LAPL
Police Station, May 1955:
Huntington Digital Library --
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7947/rec/13
August 10, 1956:
Huntington Digital Library --
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7944/rec/22
Just links:
Wrecking the police station --
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7943/rec/25
Police station wrecked --
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7960/rec/27