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Haz click aquí para el Pershing Square podcast en español

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NEW! Pershing Square Podcast

Pershing Square is a five-acre park in the heart of historic downtown Los Angeles. This podcast, created by the Los Angeles Conservancy, highlights the history and architecture of Pershing Square and some of the buildings that surround it. Pershing Square is located between Fifth, Sixth, Hill, and Olive Streets.

View a Google Map of the Podcast Sites

The podcast is divided into brief chapters for your convenience (total playing time 26:41).

Chapter 1: Pershing Square (7:40)

 

 




Chapter 2: Biltmore Hotel
(6:06)

 

 



 

Chapter 3: Title Guarantee and Trust Building (4:20)

 

 

 

 



Chapter 4: Pacific Mutual Building (4:25)

 

 

 

 


Chapter 5: City National Bank Building (4:10)

 

 

 

 

 

We’d love your feedback! Please send your comments regarding the podcast to Annie Laskey, program manager, at alaskey@laconservancy.org.

Credits: Copyright Los Angeles Conservancy, 2010. All rights reserved. Written by Annie Laskey. Spanish translation by Pamela Corante. English version read by Annie Laskey and John Pesetski. Spanish version read by Pamela Corante and Ruben Maciel. Special thanks to Mike Jourgensen.

Downtown LA Walks Historic Tour Podcast

Fine Arts Building; photo by Bruce Boehner.

As part of a program called Downtown LA Walks, the Conservancy has worked with the Confederation of Downtown Associations to produce a free podcast tour of historic downtown highlights.

The tour features about a dozen buildings as well as interviews with Conservancy Executive Director Linda Dishman, preservation architect Brenda Levin, and film critic/historian Leonard Maltin.

The podcast series also includes tours of downtown shopping, arts and culture, and international destinations. The podcasts are available as RSS feeds and direct downloads, and each includes a printable map. Enjoy!

Downtown LA Walks Historic Tour Podcast


Other Self-Guided Tours

NEW! Self-guided tour of German Los Angeles in the twentieth century. Explore the Conservancy's Google map of historic sites associated with Germans in Los Angeles as part of a partnership with The Ring Festival Los Angeles.

Printable Tour of Historic Downtown

Printable Tour of Historic Pico Union (PDF)

Printable Tour of Sites from the Fox Searchlight Film, "(500) Days of Summer" (PDF)

A sampling of the best historic architecture in downtown Los Angeles, with a printable map and descriptions of each featured building.

LA Conservancy
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Bradbury Building
304 S. Broadway, Downtown

One of Los Angeles' oldest commercial buildings, the 1893 Bradbury Building has one of Los Angeles' most beautiful and significant interior spaces. The interior has a five-story skylit open court, with marvelous wrought iron banisters and two exposed cage elevators.

Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 6; Listed in the National Register of Historic Places

Photo by Julius Shulman. Copyright J. Paul Getty Trust/Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at The Getty Research Institute.


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