Millennium Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, California)

USA / California / Vernon / Los Angeles, California / South Grand Avenue, 500

hotel, interesting place, listed building / architectural heritage, movie / film / TV location, 1923_construction

Designed by Schultze & Weaver with decoration by John B. Smeraldi as the Los Angeles - Biltmore Hotel. 506 South Grand Avenue in Los Angeles was regularly used in hundreds of movies and television shows. It doubled as the Sedgewick Hotel in Ghostbusters. It was also seen in "Dave" and "Wedding Crashers", as well as many other movies. It was used in several music videos, too, such as "Shut Up" by Simple Plan.

For more information, the venue can be contacted at (213) 624-1011.

www.millenniumhotels.com/en/los-angeles/millennium-bilt...
archive.org/details/gri_33125000905964/page/n73/mode/1u...
usmodernist.org/AF/AF-1923-11.pdf
archive.org/details/artsdecoration2021newy/page/n444/mo...

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Biltmore_Hotel

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Coordinates: 34°2'57"N 118°15'13"W

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Former site of St. Paul's, built in 1881. This was the second location of the church, the first being St. Athanasius’ Episcopal Church (1865) where City Hall now stands. http://www.cathedralsofcalifornia.com/?p=96

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