This John C. Austin-designed hotel was on the NE corner of 6th and Alvarado. I'm not sure when it was built, but it's on the 1906 Sanborn Map. It looks like it had a large roof garden:
USC Digital -
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/14257/rec/1
LAPL -
http://jpg1.lapl.org/spnb01/00007191.jpg
LAPL -
http://jpg1.lapl.org/spnb01/00007192.jpg
1970s, looking west on 6th at Alvarado. The stripped-down Hotel Alvarado, with commercial storefronts added along the sidewalk, is at right:
LAPL -
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067412.jpg
Apparently the Hotel Alvarado was closed after a bad fire in the early 1980s:
http://urbandiachrony.wordpress.com/...s-c-1910-2010/
This is what's on the NE corner of 6th and Alvarado today:
GSV 2011