Subway Terminal Building
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Subway Terminal Building
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Subway Terminal Building, 2008
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| Location | 417, 415, 425 S. Hill St., 416, 420 424 S. Olive St Los Angeles, California |
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| Architectural style | Italian Renaissance Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 06000657 |
| LAHCM # | 177 |
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| Added to NRHP | August 2, 2006 |
| Designated LAHCM | July 27, 1977 |
Coordinates: 34°03′00″N 118°15′03″W / 34.0498689°N 118.2509694°W
The Subway Terminal Building, now Metro 417, is an Italian Renaissance Revival building in Downtown Los Angeles at 417 South Hill Street. It was designed by architects Schultze and Weaver and was built in 1925. It was the downtown terminus for the "Hollywood Subway" branch of the Pacific Electric Railway Interurban rail line. Currently it is a luxury apartment building. It is near Pershing Square. When the LACMTA Red Line, the replacement for the Hollywood Subway, was built, the Pershing Square station was located nearby.
As street traffic increased in downtown Los Angeles, the Pacific Electric Railway undertook its most ambitious project, a dedicated right of way into downtown through a subway - the existing terminal in the Pacific Electric Building at Sixth and Main was reached by shared street running. Responding to the traffic congestion that clogged the streets, the California Railroad Commission in 1922 issued Order No. 9928, which called for the Pacific Electric to construct a subway to bypass downtown's busy streets. Plans for the "Hollywood Subway," as the project came to be known, were drafted as early as February 1924, and ground was broken in May of the same year.
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