Trinity Auditorium

Trinity Auditorium
Alternative names	Embassy Hotel
General information
Architectural style	Beaux-Arts
Construction started	1911
Completed	1914
Cost	US$1 million
Owner	Chetrit Group
Technical details
Floor count	9
Design and construction
Architect	Harry C. Deckbar Thornton Fitzhugh Frank George Krucker

The Trinity Auditorium, later known as the Embassy Hotel, is a historic building in Los Angeles, California, USA. It was built as a plant for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1914. The Los Angeles Philharmonic debuted in this auditorium in 1919. It was used for jazz and rock concerts as well as labor union meetings from the 1920s to the 1950s. It was an annex of the University of Southern California from 1987 to 1998, when it was sold to the New York-based Chetrit Group. As of 2015, it has been vacant for more than a decade, with plans to remodel it into a new hotel.

The building is located on the corner of 9th Street and Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles.

The nine-storey building was constructed with steel and concrete from 1911 to 1914. It was dedicated on September 20, 1914. It cost US$1 million to build. It was designed in the Beaux-Arts architectural style by Frank George Krucker as the main architect, assisted by Thornton Fitzhugh and Harry C. Deckbar.

The building was a church planting for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, with a large auditorium boasting the largest pipe organ in the Western United States and a men-only hotel on the six upper floors (renamed the Embassy Hotel in 1930). It also came with "a cafeteria, roof garden, library, gymnasium, smoking room, bowling alley, nursery, barber shop, hospital and 16 club rooms." The pastor was Reverend Charles Claude Selecman, who later served as the third president of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

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