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Title: Melrose Hotel demolition
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator: Antheil, Peter
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Demolition of the Bunker Hill structure known as "Melrose Hotel" located at 138 South Grand Avenue. Built in 1881, it was a Victorian mansion with overlapping shingles, cupolas, and domes, and eventually became a hotel apartment. When built, the hotel proper was attached to the mansion which became its annex. Photograph dated July, 1957.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00026606
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Residences-Bunker Hill; A-003-266 4x5; A-000-510 4x5 (Additional print)
CARL0000029873
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/93748
Subject: Melrose Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Apartment hotels--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles)
Hotels--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles)
Queen Anne revival (Architecture)--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles)
Construction and demolition debris
Demolition--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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