Hollywood Studio Building, formerly the Hollywood Toys building, is a historic two-story building located at 6554 W.

Hollywood Boulevard Hollywood Boulevard is a major east–west street in Los Angeles, California. It runs through the Hollywood, East Hollywood, Little Armenia, Thai Town, and Los Feliz districts. Its western terminus is at Sunset Plaza Drive in the Hollyw ...

Hollywood, California Hollywood, sometimes informally called Tinseltown, is a List of districts and neighborhoods in Los Angeles, neighborhood and district in the Central Los Angeles, central region of Los Angeles County, California, within the city of Los Angeles. ...

History

Hollywood Studio Building was built in 1927 by Henry L. Gogerty and

Carl Jules Weyl Carl Jules Weyl (6 December 1890 – 12 July 1948) was a German architect and Art director#In film, art director. He designed or co-designed six contributing properties in the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District, won a ...

, the architectural duo also responsible for the nearby Palace Theater,

Shane Building Shane Building, also known as Shane & Regar Store Building or Hollywood Center, is a historic four-story building at 6650-6654 W. Hollywood Blvd. and 1655 N Cherokee Ave in Hollywood, California. History Built in 1930, Shane Building was des ...

, and

Baine Building Baine Building, also known as Baine Studio Building, is a historic building located at 6601 W. Hollywood Boulevard and 1709 Whitley Avenue in Hollywood, California. History Baine Building was built in 1926 by architecture firm Henry L. Goger ...

. The building has ground-floor retail and second-story offices, with most of the offices featuring their own fireplaces. In 1950, Hollywood Toys & Costumes moved into the building, where they would remain until the early 1990s, when they moved one building west. In 1984, the

Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District The Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District is a historic district that consists of twelve blocks between the 6200 and 7000 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. This strip of commercial and retail busines ...

was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

, with Hollywood Toys listed as a

contributing property In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic dist ...

in the district. In March 2022, the building was re-painted to match its original color scheme.

Architecture and design

Hollywood Studio Building features

Spanish Colonial Revival The Spanish Colonial Revival architecture (), often known simply as Spanish Revival, is a term used to encompass a number of revivalist architectural styles based in both Spanish colonial architecture and Spanish architecture in general. Thes ...

architecture with a red tile roof and a second story that contains

Churrigueresque Churrigueresque (; Spanish: ''Churrigueresco''), also but less commonly "Ultra Baroque", refers to a Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament which emerged as a manner of stucco decoration in Spain in the late 17th c ...

ornament, Moorish arched windows, ornamented colonnettes between the windows, and, most prominently, a

wrought iron Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.05%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4.5%), or 0.25 for low carbon "mild" steel. Wrought iron is manufactured by heating and melting high carbon cast iron in an ...

east window.

References

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History

Architecture and design

See also

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