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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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As
GW pointed out, the building with the arches -- the Whitmarsh Building -- was not part of the Rookwood. Both buildings are still with us.
Looking NE at 8th and Olive. The Rookwood is on the corner; to its east/right is the Hotel Bristol (originally Hotel Woodward), built 1906-7. Then a gap where the Whitmarsh Building is, then the Claud Beelman-designed Garfield Building, built 1929-30. The H-shaped building north of the Rookwood and the Bristol is 740 S. Olive (1922), now senior housing. South across 8th Street from the Rookwood and Bristol is the Commercial Exchange Building (1924), which had a slice taken out of it when Olive Street was widened in 1935:
Bing
Looking SW at the east side of the Whitmarsh Building, minus the arches:
Bing
Looking straight down:
Bing
It seems the Rookwood was a John Parkinson project:
Los Angeles Times, June 14, 1903
The Rookwood was sold not long after it was completed:
Los Angeles Herald, March 12, 1905 @ LOC --
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...arRange&page=1
Enter Mr. Whit(e)marsh:
Los Angeles Herald, July 30 1905 @ LOC --
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...arRange&page=1
Here's the beginning of our building with the aesthetically pleasing but structurally superfluous arches at 417, 419, & 419-1/2 W. 8th:
Los Angeles Times, August 27, 1905
The Whitmarsh Building was soon home to a ladies' bath:
Los Angeles Times, September 23, 1906
The Whitmarsh is listed in the 1909 LA City Directory under Furnished Rooms:
Fold3.com
The Rookwood and Whitmarsh on the 1906 Sanborn, with "Sunshine" in between:
LAPL
The Hotel Woodward was built between the Rookwood and Whitmarsh in 1906-7:
Los Angeles Times, November 12, 1906
The next two photos, seen here before, look NE at 8th and Olive and the Rookwood, Woodward, and Whitmarsh, c. 1910-13:
USCDL --
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...9coll65/id/482
USCDL --
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/484/rec/129
In 1920 the Whitmarsh was known as the Hotel Rex. The Woodward had not yet become the Bristol; you can see
rd above the Rex sign in this zoomed version of a previously posted photo:
USCDL --
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/8270/rec/11
I'm sure we've seen this shot before too, but since the building at the SW corner of 8th and Olive has photobombed two of the last three pix, here it is up close in 1927:
LAPL --
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067457.jpg
William Reagh photographed 8th and Olive in 1979 (The Hotel Woodward had become the Hotel Bristol by 1950):
LAPL --
http://jpg2.lapl.org/spnb2/00017578.jpg
Looking NE at 8th and Olive, April 2014; the old Rookwood, now the Olive Hotel, has had entrances on 8th and on Olive sealed up:
GSV Apr 2014
East side of Olive Street; the Whitmarsh Building's right-of-way and the entrance to the Olive Hotel:
GSV Apr 2014
The Whitmarsh is now home to the Golden Gopher and the Hotel Lindy:
GSV Apr 2014
GSV Apr 2014
Getting back to the Whitmarsh/Hotel Lindy's former arches, perhaps they were removed when the now-vacant Garfield Building was built next door?
Inlewolf/Found Type --
http://inlewof.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html
And no wonder the Garfield Building is vacant: its lobby has this really boring green and purple marble . . . ho-hum:
Gelt Inc. --
http://geltinc.com/blog/2009/05/27/garfield-building/
More on the Garfield Building:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2328
http://bigorangelandmarks.blogspot.c...-building.html
Beaudry on the Golden Gopher:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1206
Sopas ej on the Bristol and the Gopher:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1182
er on the Woodward/Bristol:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5489
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5490
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5491
Priors on the Commercial Exchange Building:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11558
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11560