{"nrhp_refnum":"10001119","name":"Bricker Building, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1671 Northern Western Ave","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.104079229000035,"lon":-118.31006839699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-01-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story mixed-use brick building at 1671 N. Western Avenue in Hollywood, Los Angeles, built in 1924, with two ground-floor retail units and sixteen apartments above.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the building as an example of the modest high-rise multi-family buildings that were typical of 1920s Los Angeles, a period of rapid population growth and building boom in Hollywood. It is also noted for its Italian Renaissance Revival design with Beaux Arts details and for retaining a high degree of integrity, including character-defining interior features.","narrative":"Completed in 1924 at 1671 N. Western Avenue in Hollywood, this four-story brick building combines street-level shops with apartments above. Its unreinforced brick walls and wood-framed floors and roof sit on a concrete foundation. The east facade, facing Western Avenue, is symmetrical and nine bays wide, with arched upper windows, belt courses, glazed brick trim, cartouches, concrete balusters and a modillioned cornice, reflecting Italian Renaissance Revival style with Beaux Arts touches. Two retail units flank the entrance on the ground floor, and sixteen apartments in studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom layouts fill the upper three floors. Original wood stairs, windows and other interior features survive, although the storefronts have been heavily altered and a 1991 retrofit added steel frames and plywood shear walls. The building is significant as an example of the modest high-rise multi-family housing built during the 1920s, when Hollywood's film industry drove rapid population growth and construction, and it continues in its original mixed commercial and residential use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Beaux Arts, Italian Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used for multiple dwellings and retail, as it was historically; exterior is mostly intact and in fair to good condition, with heavily altered storefronts.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.820188-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/10001119.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10001119/9d0a7b511b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10001119/9d0a7b511b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Downtowngal","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bricker_Building_1669-71_N_Western_Los_Angeles.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Downtowngal</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bricker_Building_1669-71_N_Western_Los_Angeles.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858979","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bricker_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28125996"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/bricker-building-the-10001119/"}