Platt Building, also known as Platt Music Company Building and Anjac Fashion Building, is a historic twelve-story highrise located at 834 South

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in the Broadway Theater District in the historic core of

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History

Platt Building was built in 1927 and designed by Walker & Eisen, an architecture firm known for many Los Angeles landmarks, including the Fine Arts Building, Hollywood Plaza Hotel, Taft Building,

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, United Artists Theatre, and more. The building was built to a height of 150 feet, the legal limit at the time, and its original tenant was the

Platt Music Corporation The Platt Music Corporation, founded by Benjamin Platt in 1905, was a national retailer. In 1984, Michael Glazer became chairman and chairman executive of Platt Music. Tom Bagan, president and COO of Chicago retail giant Marshall Field's Marsha ...

, who had a concert hall that took up an entire floor. In 1964, Annette and Jack Needleman began buying property in the area. They renamed this and several other buildings Anjac Fashion, a

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of their first names. In 1979, the

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was added to the

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, with the Anjac Fashion Building at 834 S.

listed as a

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in the district. The Broadway Bar moved into the building in 2005.

Architecture and design

Platt Building features a

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design and is made of

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-framed

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with a

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facade.

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