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Title: Trees and exterior of Hotel Melrose
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1940
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
A closer view of one side of the Melrose Hotel with its domes, porch and cupolas although trees obscure the lower floor. Located at 138 S. Grand Ave., it started as a Victorian mansion in 1881 and eventually became a hotel apartment. When built, the hotel proper was attached to the mansion which became its annex.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00007388
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
S-003-955 4x5; L.A.-Hotels-Hotel Melrose.
CARL0000008250
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/82540
Subject: Melrose Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Apartment hotels--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles)
Mansions--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles)
Queen Anne revival (Architecture)--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles)
Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Grand Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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