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Secret Streamline Moderne on Hollywood Boulevard

  • Aug 29, 2023
  • 1 min read

In 1935, architectural firm Morgan, Walls, and Clements gave this decade-old Hollywood building a Streamline Moderne facelift.


Streamline Moderne architecture
6363-6369 Hollywood Boulevard (California State Library)

Some remnants of the past remained, like a trough for the horses that once trotted along Hollywood Boulevard (and it looks like a water fountain on the other side for humans).


Next door was the Hollywood Branch Library, built upon land owned by pioneer Daeida Wilcox Beveridge. In 1939, it was dismantled and moved south on Ivar Avenue.

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