Hill Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in

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, measuring in length. It starts on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard near the campus of

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, and passes north through

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, past such landmarks as Pershing Square, the

Subway Terminal Building 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 ...

Angels Flight Angels Flight is a landmark and historic narrow gauge funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles, California. It has two funicular cars, named ''Olivet'' and ''Sinai'', that run in opposite directions on a shared c ...

Fort Moore Fort Moore was the second of two historic U.S. Military Forts in Los Angeles, California, during the Mexican–American War. It lay straight above the junction of the Hollywood Freeway and Broadway, on an historic hill that once sheltered the o ...

and

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. Hill Street merges with the

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near

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History

Hill Street was originally laid out in 1849 by

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. At that time, the street ended in the north at 1st Street, where the foot of Fort Hill sat. The stretch of modern Hill Street north of the old hill was originally named Calle del Toro (Bull Street),Alternate Link
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.Alternate Link
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. was renamed Castelar in 1874, and finally renamed North Hill in 1960.Alternate Link
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Transportation

The Metro B Line and

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run underneath Hill Street between 1st and 4th Streets and operate the

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and Pershing Square stations along the way.

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lines 2, 4, 10, 28, 81, and 94 run along the surface. The

funicular climbs west up Bunker Hill from Hill between 3rd and 4th streets.

Education

Number of schools are located at or nearby Hill Street. They include Cathedral High School, Castelar Elementary School,

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, Evans Community Adult School, the

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Middle School, Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Magnet High School,

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, and Los Angeles Trade-Tech College.

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has the

branch located at Hill and Ord Streets.

Landmarks

;North of US-101 freeway: Chinatown Lib

* Chinatown Branch Library, Hill and Ord streets *

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(back side) *

Pioneer Memorial (451 N. Hill) * Site of

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building (1891, razed) ;Civic Center: Stanley Mosk Courthouse

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(2002,

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with

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elements) *

Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration (abbreviated HOA), formerly the Los Angeles County Hall of Administration, completed 1960, is the seat of the government of the County of Los Angeles, California, and houses the Los Angeles County Board of Supe ...

(1960, Stanton, Stockwell, Williams and Wilson,

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) *

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(1962) *

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* Stanley Mosk Courthouse (1958, Stanton, Stockwell, Williams and Wilson,

) *

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(2016), built on the site of the demolished First Junipero Serra State Office Building ( Stanton & Stockwell, 1960) ;Third to Fourth streets: *

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;Fourth to Fifth streets: * Former Broadway Department Store (back side), now Junipero Serra State Office Building (#2) *

, now Metro 417 residential *

Title Guarantee and Trust Company Building The Title Guarantee and Trust Company Building is an Art Deco style highrise building on Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles. It was built in 1930 on the site of the California Club building. The building was designed by The Parkinsons, who a ...

(1930) Fifth to Sixth streets: * Pershing Square * Pershing Square station * Site of Paramount Theatre (movie palace), now International Jewelry Center ;Sixth to Seventh streets: *Consolidated Reatly Bldg./California Jewelry Mart (1908/1935) *Sun Realty Bldg./Los Angeles Jewelry Center (1931) *Harris & Frank Bldg./Wholesale Jewelry Exchange (1925) *Western Jewelry Mart *William Fox Bldg. (Fox Jewelry Plaza) (1932) * former Warner Bros. (a.k.a. Pantages, Warren) Theatre (movie palace, 1920), now Jewelry Theatre Center *

Bullock's Bullock's was a chain of full-line department stores from 1907 through 1995, headquartered in Los Angeles, growing to operate across California, Arizona and Nevada. Bullock's also operated as many as seven more upscale Bullocks Wilshire specialty ...

department store buildings (back entrance), now St. Vincent Jewelry Center ;Seventh to Eighth streets: * Foreman & Clark department store building (site, 1928) * Garfield Building (1930) * Union Bank and Trust Company building (1922), now Union Lofts ;Eighth to Ninth streets: * Site of the RKO Hillstreet Theatre (1922–1963), now

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(residential) *Coast Federal Savings Building (1926) ;Ninth St. to Olympic Blvd.: * May Company Garage - 1926 - one of the Nation's first parking structures (

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No. 1001) * South Park by Windsor Apts. ;South of Olympic Blvd.: * The Mayan * Site of Belasco Theatre * White Log Coffee Shop * John Adams Middle School (151 W. 30th St.)

Notes

References

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