Draft:The Reserve Lofts
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Los Angeles Branch | |
 The building in 2008 | |
 Interactive map of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Los Angeles Branch | |
| Location | 409 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, California |
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| Coordinates | 34°02′34″N 118°15′35″W / 34.0427523°N 118.2596653°W |
| Area | 0.6 acres (0.24 ha) |
| Built | 1929 |
| Architect | The Parkinsons |
| General contractor | P. J. Walker Company |
| Architectural style | Classical Moderne, Streamline Moderne |
| NRHP reference No. | 84000843[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 20, 1984 |
The Reserve Lofts is an apartment building and former bank building in Downtown Los Angeles. The building was built in 1929 as the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Los Angeles Branch, housing the Southern California office of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
The building was expanded in the 1950s in a similar architectural style to the original building, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The building was used by the San Francisco Fed until 1988, when the bank's Los Angeles branch moved to a newly-built building on the same block. After its use as a Federal Reserve Bank branch, the building was leased as commercial office space to multiple tenants. The building was extensively remodeled after a 2000 fire, and reopened as an apartment building in 2005.
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[edit]San Francisco Fed establishes Los Angeles branch in 1920
The original 1929 building was designed by John and Donald Parkinson in a Classical Moderne style with elements of Zigzag Moderne.
1953 addition in line with the rest of the building
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
1988, Fed moves next door to a building designed by Dan Dworsky
2000 fire
Reopening as lofts in 2005
Architecture
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 Brown, Marvin A. (1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Los Angeles Branch". Retrieved September 21, 2026 – via National Archives and Records Administration.
- ↑ "Group of Notable Buildings in Los Angeles to be Erected During Year 1929". Southwest Builder and Contractor. 78 (1): 40. January 4, 1929. Retrieved September 21, 2026.
- ↑ "STRUCTURE SOON TO BE STARTED: New Federal Reserve Bank Building Plans Completed". Los Angeles Times. February 28, 1929. p. A9. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
- ↑ "Building's Buyer Can Look Where the Money Was". Los Angeles Times. December 20, 1987. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
- ↑ Rivera, Carla (April 12, 2000). "Preservationists Lament Federal Reserve Blaze". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
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- Photographs of construction from the California State Library