The Hotel Lankershim was a landmark hotel located at Seventh Street and Broadway in

downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) contains the central business district of Los Angeles. In addition, it contains a diverse residential area of some 85,000 people, and covers . A 2013 study found that the district is home to over 500,000 jobs. It is ...

, California in the United States. Construction began in 1902 and was completed in 1905. The building was largely demolished in the early 1980s following structural damage caused by the

1971 Sylmar earthquake The 1971 San Fernando earthquake (also known as the 1971 Sylmar earthquake) occurred in the early morning of February 9 in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in southern California. The unanticipated thrust earthquake had a magnitude of ...

. The "posh" hotel had nine stories, 300 rooms and two dining rooms. The hotel was built by

James Boon Lankershim James Boon Lankershim (1850–1931) was an American heir, landowner and real estate developer. Early life James Boon Lankershim was born on March 24, 1850, in Charleston, Missouri. His father was Isaac Lankershim (1818–1882), a German-born Calif ...

and in the early years he also lived in the building. He had previously constructed a building called Lankershim Flats, located across the street, and demolished in 1906. He sold the lease to Wallace W. Whitecotton of the Shattuck Hotel in Berkeley in 1919. Whitecotton sold it to E.P. Severcool and E.B. Edmonds in 1926. A "bathing establishment" was to be installed 1921. Circa 1915, the hotel marketed itself as within a “stone’s throw” of

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 ...

and Hamburger’s Department Stores, as well as the Orpheum, Morosco and Majestic Theaters. In the late 1950s it offered a cocktail bar, a piano bar, and a coffee shop.

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