Another picture of the hotel from 1900. The Nadeau is on the right, the Hollenbeck Hotel, the Nadeau’s competitor, is a block away.
>Opened by a retired freighter, Remi Nadeau, this hotel stood out as one of top two hotels (the other being the Hollenbeck House opened in 1889 by Andrew Bilicke) in the city from 1882 until about 1900. The two rival establishments displaced the three-story Pico House (1870) as the city’s most important luxury hotels. They stood only one block away from each other, the Nadeau at 1st and Spring and the Hollenbeck at 2nd and Spring.
>Their guest rooms, bars and restaurants became important meeting places for businessmen and political leaders, as well as visiting celebrities. Originally located outside the core of old Mexican El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles near Plaza and 1st Street, the growing Anglo city developed to the south and its financial district grew up around the Nadeau and Hollenbeck during the 1880s and 1890s.
>From his freighting and hotel operations, Nadeau became a wealthy man, acquiring significant amounts of real estate, including a large ranch farming sugar beets and later wine. The Los Angeles Times stated in his obituary, "At the time of his death his vineyard covered 2400 acres, and was probably the largest in the world." (See "Remi Nadeau A Prominent and Old-Time Citizen Passes Away," Los Angeles Times, 01/16.1887, also reprinted by Find A Grace.com.) Regarding his real estate holdings, mostly accumulated between 1875 and his death, the West Adams Heritage Association has observed: "Nadeau owned most of the block between Fourth and Fifth Streets in downtown Los Angeles and what is now Broadway and Hill Street."
>The supremacy of the Nadeau and Hollenbeck Hotels reigned unchallenged until the construction of a few other prominent hotels, most notably the Van Nuys (1897) the Angelus (1901), and the Alexandria Hotel (1906). By 1910, their heydays were over. The Nadeau The Nadeau and Hollenbeck were torn down within a few months of each other in 1932.
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>Its owners demolished the Hotel Nadeau in 1932, arousing some lamentation among older Los Angelenos, who patronized its shoe shine stands, barber shop, Laurel Palace Saloon. The Times-Mirror Company’s Los Angeles Times Building #4 replaced the Hotel Nadeau by 1935.
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It’s hard to believe that Los Angeles one had a very extensive Victorian core with incredible houses that certainly rivaled the best in San Francisco. Sad that it is almost 99% vanished. Angelino heights has a street or two and south and west off downtown there is a pocket. But not much more. Down on Adams of course and in that vicinity there are still some fine looking houses but Victorian downtown is only around station and virtually just a memory.. That being said, the surviving core of downtown LA still has some wonderful wonderful early steel frame buildings with terracotta or other applications, some beautiful stuff that is slowly making a recovery
joebidenswarmcumsays
Reject modernity, embrace tradition
MediterraneanLadsays
How can someone possibly tear this down without absolutely hating western civilization at their core
moose098 says
Another picture of the hotel from 1900. The Nadeau is on the right, the Hollenbeck Hotel, the Nadeau’s competitor, is a block away.
>Opened by a retired freighter, Remi Nadeau, this hotel stood out as one of top two hotels (the other being the Hollenbeck House opened in 1889 by Andrew Bilicke) in the city from 1882 until about 1900. The two rival establishments displaced the three-story Pico House (1870) as the city’s most important luxury hotels. They stood only one block away from each other, the Nadeau at 1st and Spring and the Hollenbeck at 2nd and Spring.
>Their guest rooms, bars and restaurants became important meeting places for businessmen and political leaders, as well as visiting celebrities. Originally located outside the core of old Mexican El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles near Plaza and 1st Street, the growing Anglo city developed to the south and its financial district grew up around the Nadeau and Hollenbeck during the 1880s and 1890s.
>From his freighting and hotel operations, Nadeau became a wealthy man, acquiring significant amounts of real estate, including a large ranch farming sugar beets and later wine. The Los Angeles Times stated in his obituary, "At the time of his death his vineyard covered 2400 acres, and was probably the largest in the world." (See "Remi Nadeau A Prominent and Old-Time Citizen Passes Away," Los Angeles Times, 01/16.1887, also reprinted by Find A Grace.com.) Regarding his real estate holdings, mostly accumulated between 1875 and his death, the West Adams Heritage Association has observed: "Nadeau owned most of the block between Fourth and Fifth Streets in downtown Los Angeles and what is now Broadway and Hill Street."
>The supremacy of the Nadeau and Hollenbeck Hotels reigned unchallenged until the construction of a few other prominent hotels, most notably the Van Nuys (1897) the Angelus (1901), and the Alexandria Hotel (1906). By 1910, their heydays were over. The Nadeau The Nadeau and Hollenbeck were torn down within a few months of each other in 1932.
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>Its owners demolished the Hotel Nadeau in 1932, arousing some lamentation among older Los Angelenos, who patronized its shoe shine stands, barber shop, Laurel Palace Saloon. The Times-Mirror Company’s Los Angeles Times Building #4 replaced the Hotel Nadeau by 1935.
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If you’re interested in more old pics of LA check out the thread Noirish LA over at Skyscrapernet!
Different_Ad7655 says
It’s hard to believe that Los Angeles one had a very extensive Victorian core with incredible houses that certainly rivaled the best in San Francisco. Sad that it is almost 99% vanished. Angelino heights has a street or two and south and west off downtown there is a pocket. But not much more. Down on Adams of course and in that vicinity there are still some fine looking houses but Victorian downtown is only around station and virtually just a memory.. That being said, the surviving core of downtown LA still has some wonderful wonderful early steel frame buildings with terracotta or other applications, some beautiful stuff that is slowly making a recovery
joebidenswarmcum says
Reject modernity, embrace tradition
MediterraneanLad says
How can someone possibly tear this down without absolutely hating western civilization at their core