{"nrhp_refnum":"09000180","name":"Pacific Electric Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"610 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.04497068200004,"lon":-118.25004073999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-04-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A nine-story brick office building with a ground-level electric rail depot at 610 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, designed in the Beaux Arts style by Thornton Fitzhugh. It has been rehabilitated as 314 apartments with ground-floor storefronts.","why_significant":"The building served as the Pacific Electric Railway's headquarters and main depot, and it records the rise and decline of Los Angeles streetcar transit. It is a Beaux Arts design by Thornton Fitzhugh with a 1944-1947 ground-floor remodel by Claud Beelman. It also housed the Jonathan Club's rotunda and ballroom headquarters on its top floors.","narrative":"Rising nine stories on South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, this brick building was built as an office block with an electric rail depot at street level. Thornton Fitzhugh designed it in the Beaux Arts style, with a base, middle and capital arrangement, arched windows and terracotta Corinthian capitals below the cornice. The top floors held the headquarters of the Jonathan Club, including a double-height octagonal rotunda and a ballroom. The building served the Pacific Electric Railway until the last trains ran on January 1, 1950, after buses had begun using the depot in 1942. Architect Claud Beelman remodeled the lobby and concourse in 1944-1947 with marble finishes and Moderne elevator doors. Following a rehabilitation that reopened it in 2005, the building holds 314 apartments and ground-floor storefronts. Cole's, a restaurant in the building since 1906, still operates on 6th Street. The building was listed for its architecture and its link to Los Angeles transit history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Thornton Fitzhugh (original design); Claud Beelman (1944-1947 ground floor renovation)","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts, Romanesque, Moderne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Rehabilitated and reopened in 2005 as a 314-unit residential building with ground-floor storefronts. Cole's restaurant remains on 6th Street, and some Main Street storefronts were unoccupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.803428-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/09000180.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000180/0b8c52b869-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000180/0b8c52b869-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Publichall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pacific_Electric_Building_-_Los_Angeles.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Publichall</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:Pacific_Electric_Building_-_Los_Angeles.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859372","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7122437"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/pacific-electric-building-09000180/"}