Marc Wanamaker, in “Remembering the Hal Roach Studios” for the Culver City Historical Society, calls the Hal Roach Studios one of Culver City’s lost landmarks, originally at 8822 West Washington Boulevard, at the corner of Washington and National Boulevards. In 1980 the site was marked with a historical plaque.
The society’s timeline dates the incorporation of Culver City to 20 September 1917, after an election on 8 September ordered on 13 August by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. The same 1917 note says the city leased the upper floor of a theater from Fannie A. Henderson, on the Culver Hotel site, for city offices, at $15 a month. A summer 2017 newsletter of the society names Harry H. Culver as the city founder and gives the same incorporation date, 20 September 1917.
Two sentences from the English Wikipedia article “Culver City, California,” CC BY-SA:
Culver City is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,779.
The Culver Hotel
The Los Angeles Conservancy places the Culver Hotel at 9400 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232. It lists a 1924 hotel in the Beaux Arts style, designed by Curlett and Beelman, first called the Hotel Hunt, flatiron-shaped and six stories high, and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Conservancy writes that local press, at the 1924 opening, called the building a skyscraper, and that it held the offices and vault of the city founder Harry Hazel Culver.
The National Park Service lists the Culver Hotel in the National Register of Historic Places, at 9400 Culver Blvd., Culver City, with the listing date 14 April 1997.
The Culver Hotel is its own building at 9400 Culver Boulevard. The Hal Roach lot is the Washington Boulevard address above.
Two sentences from the English Wikipedia article “Culver Hotel,” CC BY-SA:
The Culver Hotel is a national historical landmark in downtown Culver City, California.
It was built by Harry Culver, the founder of Culver City, and opened on September 4, 1924, with local headlines announcing: "City packed with visitors for opening of Culver skyscraper."
Sources
- Culver City, California, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Culver Hotel, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Marc Wanamaker, “Remembering the Hal Roach Studios,” Culver City Historical Society, 1 April 2006.
- Culver City Timeline, Culver City Historical Society.
- Culver City Historical Society, newsletter, summer 2017.
- Culver Hotel, Los Angeles Conservancy.
- Culver Hotel, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, listed 14 April 1997.