Broadway Theater and Commercial District (NRHP) Broadway Theater and Entertainment District (City of Los Angeles) | |
Location | 300—849 S. Broadway Los Angeles, California |
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Coordinates | 34°2′48″N 118°15′4″W / 34.04667°N 118.25111°W |
Architect | Multiple |
Architectural style | Early Commercial, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Art Deco |
NRHP reference No. | 79000484 [1] |
Added to NRHP | May 9, 1979 |
Maintained by | |
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Length | 17.75 mi (28.57 km) |
Location | Los Angeles |
South end | Main Street in Carson |
Major junctions |
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Northeast end | Mission Road in Los Angeles |
Construction | |
Inauguration | 1890 |
Broadway, until 1890 Fort Street, is a thoroughfare in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The portion of Broadway from 3rd to 9th streets, in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles, was the city's main commercial street from the 1910s until World War II, and is the location of the Broadway Theater and Commercial District, the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).[2] With twelve movie palaces located along a six-block stretch of Broadway, it is the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States.