National Register of Historic Places

Subway Terminal Building

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
Listed
August 1, 2006
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
06000657

About this property

The historic Subway Terminal, now Metro 417, opened in 1925 at 417 South Hill Street near Pershing Square, in the core of Los Angeles as the second, main train station of the Pacific Electric Railway; it served passengers boarding trains for the west and north of Southern California through a mile-long shortcut under Bunker Hill popularly called the "Hollywood Subway," but officially known as the Belmont Tunnel. The station served alongside the Pacific Electric Building at 6th & Main, which opened in 1905 to serve lines to the south and east. The Subway Terminal was designed by Schultze and Weaver in an Italian Renaissance Revival style, and the station itself lay underground below offices of the upper floors, since repurposed into the Metro 417 luxury apartments. When the underground Red Line was built, the new Pershing Square station was cut north under Hill Street alongside the Terminal building, separated from the Subway's east end by just a retaining wall. At its peak in the 20th century, the Subway Terminal served upwards of 20 million passengers a year.

Location

417, 415, 425 S. Hill St., 416, 420 424 S. Olive St.
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
34.04992, -118.25120

Categories

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Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Subway Terminal Building listed on the National Register?

Subway Terminal Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 2006.

What type of historic resource is Subway Terminal Building?

Subway Terminal Building is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Subway Terminal Building?

The period of significance for Subway Terminal Building is recorded as the industrial era.

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