Cecil Hotel (Los Angeles)

at 640 S Main St, Los Angeles , 90014 United States

1. Hotel
2. Hostel
3. Apartment & Condo Building

Description

Stay on Main is a budget hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, located at 640 S. Main Street, opened in 1927 with 600 guest rooms .HistoryThe Cecil was constructed in 1924 by hotelie William Banks Hanner, as a destination for business travelers and tourists. Built in the Art Deco style to the designs of Loy Lester Smith, the hotel cost $1 million to complete and boasted an opulent marble lobby with stained-glass windows, potted palms, and alabaster statuary. Hanner had invested confidently in the enterprise, in the knowledge that several similar hotels had been established elsewhere downtown, but he had been unable to predict that within five years of its opening, the United States would sink into the Great Depression. The road on which the hotel stood - Main Street - quickly declined into the area known as Skid Row, with as many as 10,000 homeless people living within a four-mile radius and by the 1950s it had gained a reputation as a residence for transients. A portion of the hotel was refurbished in 2007 after new owners took over.In 2011, the Cecil Hotel was re-branded as "Stay on Main", and a new Website, stayonmain.com, was created. The old website thececilhotel.com continued online, though, until the end of 2013.The hotel was sold to NYC hotelier Richard Born for $30 million in 2014, and another New-York based firm, Simon Baron Development, acquired a 99-year ground lease on the property. Matt Baron, president of Simon Baron, announced that whilst committed to the preservation of architecturally or historically significant components such as the grand lobby, his company planned to completely redevelop the interior and make good the "hodgepodge" work carried out there in more recent years

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Summary

Cecil Hotel (Los Angeles) is Los Angeles based place and this enity listed in Hotel category. Located at 640 S Main St CA 90014. Contact phone number of Cecil Hotel (Los Angeles): (213) 213-7829