{"nrhp_refnum":"05000048","name":"Textile Center Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"315 E. Eigth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.04090222900004,"lon":-118.25106434099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-02-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twelve-story steel-frame and concrete loft building with ground-floor retail at 315 E. Eighth Street, at the corner of Maple Avenue in the Fashion District of downtown Los Angeles. Construction began in 1925 and finished in January 1926, and W. Douglas Lee designed it.","why_significant":"The building is tied to Florence Casler, a leading 1920s real estate developer and contractor who succeeded in a male-dominated field and ran her firm from this building. It is also an excellent example of an industrial building dressed in Gothic and Renaissance Revival facades, designed by a developer for multiple textile tenants.","narrative":"Rising twelve stories at Eighth Street and Maple Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, this steel-frame and concrete loft building was built between 1925 and 1926 for textile and garment businesses. Architect W. Douglas Lee gave the two street-facing sides a Renaissance Revival layout of base, shaft and capital, decorated with Gothic Revival pointed arches in cast concrete and multicolored brick. From the street it could pass for an office building, but steel sash windows reveal its industrial purpose. Upper floors hold open loft spaces divided by a central corridor. The building is tied to Florence Casler, who developed it with partner Jesse Lloyd and moved her firm's offices here. She became one of the few women to succeed as a developer and contractor in 1920s Los Angeles, and was the city's first woman bank director. The building also stands as a fine example of an industrial building in revival-style dress. The upper stories remain largely intact, and the building still serves garment manufacturing.","period_of_significance":"1926-1930","architect_builder":"Lee, William Douglas","architectural_style":"Late 19th Century & 20th Century Revival: Late Gothic Revival, Renaissance Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Still used for garment and textile manufacturing with ground-floor retail; the form reports a high level of physical integrity, with changes mainly to the storefronts.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.699631-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/05000048.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000048/2534ee6588-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000048/2534ee6588-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Textile_Center_Building,_Los_Angeles.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Textile_Center_Building,_Los_Angeles.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859574","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_Center_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7708453"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/textile-center-building-05000048/"}