International Savings & Exchange Bank Building

at 226 North Spring St, Los Angeles United States

1. Landmark

The International Savings & Exchange Bank Building , was built in the Spring Street Financial District of Los Angeles in 1907. Standing ten floors, it was designed in the Renaissance Revival and Italianate styles by architect H. Alban Reaves , who had previously designed several structures in New York, including what is now the south building of the historic Schuyler Arms.It stood at 226 North Spring Street, the intersection of Temple and Spring, across from the Main Post Office and was featured in several postcards from the 1920s. Occupying the ground floor was the International Savings & Exchange Bank, “an institution much in favor among foreign born and descended residents,” which had been incorporated four years earlier in 1903.In 1928, the building was dwarfed by the new 30-story Los Angeles City Hall, and soon after calls for its demolition increased, resulting in its razing sometime after 1954. The portion of Spring Street that its front entrance faced no longer exists.Role in ''Safety Last!''It was this building that was featured in the 1923 Harold Lloyd film, Safety Last!, wherein Lloyd’s character climbs and performs several stunts on its exterior, including famously hanging from a clock face (a prop that was added for the film).The ten-floor International Savings Building is presented in the film as ‘the 12-story Bolton Building’ and is the setting for the story’s “DeVore Department Store” (The interior store scenes at ground level were not filmed at the International Savings Bank Building but at Ville de Paris, a department store at 712 South Olive at 7th Street).

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International Savings & Exchange Bank Building is Los Angeles based place and this enity listed in Landmark category. Located at 226 North Spring St CA