Department Store

Photo by Hunter Kerhart

Bullock's Wilshire / Southwestern Law School

The former Bullock's Wilshire department store building is a spectacular gem that exemplifies the height of the Art Deco style in Los Angeles and beyond.

Photo copyright J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute (2004.R.10)

Coulter's Department Store (Demolished)

Stiles O. Clements

One of the best examples of the Streamline Moderne style built in Los Angeles.

Photo by Hunter Kerhart

Dominguez-Wilshire Building

Morgan, Walls, and Clements

One of the iconic Art Deco towers on the Miracle Mile.

Photo from Conservancy archives

Hamburgers/May Company Department Store

Alfred F. Rosenheim

Alexander Curlett

An enormous Beaux Arts structure erected in 1906 that once boasted it was the largest department store on the Pacific Coast.

Photo courtesy Nadel Architects

Junipero Serra State Office Building

John Parkinson

Parkinson & Bergstrom

Arthur T. Letts established his new business in a rented space at the corner of Fourth Street and Broadway, eventually expanding the company, The Broadway Department Store, into California's largest retail establishment of the era.

Photo by Adrian Scott Fine/L.A. Conservancy

Lerners Building

Philip Barker

Part of the National Register-listed Broadway Theatre and Commercial Historic District, this building was originally a women's clothing store.

Photo courtesy Architectural Resources Group

Macy's

Wurdeman & Becket

Engineered to meet the precise aspirations of residents of Pasadena, Bullock's Pasadena (currently Macy's) is a sublime example of a post-World War II department store.