Hollywood Reporter Building
Publisher and businessman William Wilkerson developed the Hollywood Reporter complex in the 1930s and 40s, starting with a two-story office building behind an existing one-story structure fronting Sunset Boulevard. Architects Douglas Honnold and George Vernon Russell remodeled the existing building into a Regency Moderne showpiece for Wilkerson’s upscale men’s haberdashery, Sunset House. The business failed and the space was repurposed. The Hollywood Reporter moved in the early 1990s. L.A. Weekly next occupied the building through 2008. In 2015, the Harridge Development Group planned to raze the building as part of its Crossroads of the World complex. The Art Deco Society of Los Angeles successfully campaigned to have it designated as a Los Angeles Historical-Cultural Monument and Harridge has absorbed it into its design.
Hollywood, Los Angeles County
Photographer: Andrew Schmidt