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Old Rosslyn Hotel

Description: The first Hotel Rosslyn, 433 South Main Street.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: Feb 54
Call number: photCL 486
Creator: Conner, Palmer(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Gina Dunseth, 2004.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; RESTRICTED. Use digital reproductions in the Huntington Digital Library. Originals available by special permission only.

Rosslyn Hotels

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Three of the four buildings that comprise the Rosslyn Hotels. The first Hotel Rosslyn at right, six-story former Hotel Lexington in the middle, and the 12-story New Hotel Rosslyn with roof top sign at left. The 1914 New Hotel Rosslyn is at the northwest corner of Main and 5th Streets. Businesses occupy the ground level spaces.

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New Rosslyn Hotels, Los Angeles

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Image looking across South Main Street towards the new Rosslyn Hotel (112 West Fifth Street), also known as the hotel annex, and the original Rosslyn Hotel (100 West Fifth Street), across the intersection of Fifth Street and Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, California. Automobiles, a street light, and a traffic signal can be seen along with various storefront signs on Fifth Street which read "Rhapsody," "Avon," and "Airline Bus Depot."

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New Rosslyn Hotels, Los Angeles, California

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Image of the original Rosslyn Hotel (100 West Fifth Street), with the new Rosslyn Hotel (112 West Fifth Street), also known as the hotel annex, across the intersection of Fifth Street and South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, California. Automobiles, streetcar tracks, a can be seen along with various storefront signs on Fifth Street including "Airline Bus Company Depot" (at 451 West Fifth Street), "Rosslyn Loan & Jewelry Co. Money-Loan" and "Rosslyn Sandwich Shop."

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Old hotel nearly razed

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Upper three stories of the Hotel Armondale, 748 South Flower Street, have been demolished as work progresses concurrently on the Congress Hotel next to it. Blue 1960 Gas Company building prominent in background sits across 8th Street.

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Westminster Hotel from Spring Street through parking lots

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Two of the hotel's five towers as seen from Spring Street. Across the street from the Westminster Hotel are the Follies Theater, 337 South Main Street, and Barclay Hotel on the right.

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Buildings to be wrecked for Farmers & Merchants National Bank garage

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Main Street south of 4th Street. From left to right: first three buildings, 413-423 South Main Street, slated to be demolished and replaced by a parking garage; I. W. Hellman Building, 411 South Main Street; Farmers & Merchants National Bank, 401 South Main Street; and Hotel Barclay on 4th Street.

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