Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin financed the United Artists Theatre/Texaco Building located at 933 S. Broadway, which was completed in 1927 by architects Percy A. Walker & Albert R. Eisen with interior design by C. Howard Crane. The Spanish Gothic style building included an ornate 50-foot high "dummy tower" to circumvent the local height restriction of the time, and all of the offices were leased to the California Petroleum Co. In 1979 Texaco Oil moved operations to Wilshire Blvd. In 1991 the building was designated as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument # 523. Dr. Gene Scott's University Cathedral leased the building until Greenfield Partners bought it in 2011 for conversion to an Ace Hotel. Mural in the United Artists Theater auditorium, featuring Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford & Charlie Chaplin. (Vertical view)
Valentino, Rudolph,--1895-1926--Portraits Fairbanks, Douglas,--1883-1939--Portraits Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979--Portraits Chaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977--Portraits United Artists Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.) Motion picture theaters--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Murals--California--Los Angeles Interiors--California--Los Angeles Crane, C. Howard(Charles Howard),1885-1952 Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Walker & Eisen
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