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The
Historic Bradbury Building
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Takes You On a Tour • Los Angeles, California |
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The
Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in Los Angeles, California.
The building was built in 1893 and is located at 304 South Broadway
(at 3rd Street) in downtown.
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The
building itself features an Italian Renaissance Revival -style exterior
facade of brown brick, sandstone and panels of terra cotta details,
in the "commercial Romanesque Revival" that was the current
idiom in East Coast American cities.
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Robert
Forster, star of the TV series Banyon that used the building
for his office, described it as "one of the great interiors
of L.A.
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From 2001 to 2003 A+D Museum: Los Angeles had its home in the
building.
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It
was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
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In
(500) Days of Summer (2009) the building features in the
last scenes as the location of an architectural firm. In The
Artist (2011), it was used as the site for "Kinograph
Studios".
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The
building is a popular tourist attraction. Visitors are welcome daily
and greeted by a government worker who provides historical facts
and information about the building. Visitors are allowed up to the
first landing but not past it.
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