Broadway Spring Street Mercantile Arcade - 1924 (Los Angeles, California)

 building, place with historical importance

The site had been owned by the City of Los Angeles since 1883, and had hosted first a school and then the shop-edged lane known as Mercantile Place. This site was sold in 1919, and the present Arcade Building opened—as the Mercantile Arcade Building—with much hoopla on February 15, 1924, such luminaries as Charlie Chaplin, Pola Negri, Jackie Coogan, and the Grauman's Egyptian Quartet in attendance.

The Beaux-Arts / Spanish Renaissance Revival structure, built in 1924, is comprised of two back-to-back towers which run a full block between Broadway and Spring Street, linked by a three-story retail arcade.

In December 2007, the building’s iconic KRKD tower was relit with blue neon through the Museum of Neon Art’s LUMENS project.

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