Ace Hotel Los Angeles
The Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles, originally built as the California Petroleum Corporation Building and later known as the Texaco Building, is a 243 ft (74 m), 13-story highrise hotel and theater building located at 937 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California. It was the tallest building in the city for one year after its completion in 1927, and was the tallest privately owned structure in Los Angeles until 1956. Its style is Spanish Gothic, patterned after Segovia Cathedral in Segovia, Spain.
| Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles | |
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Exterior of the building (c. 2008) | |
| Former names | United Artists Theatre (1927–90) University Cathedral (1990–2011) |
| Hotel chain | Ace Hotel Group |
| General information | |
| Status | Completed |
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| Location | Downtown Los Angeles |
| Address | 929 S Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90015-1609 |
| Coordinates | 34.0416°N 118.2571°W |
| Groundbreaking | March 5, 1927 |
| Opened | December 26, 1927 |
| Renovated | 2012–14 |
| Cost | $3 million ($52.6 million in 2023 dollars) |
| Height | |
| Roof | 73.76 m (242.0 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 13 |
| Design and construction | |
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| Structural engineer | Scofield Engineering Construction |
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| Structural engineer | Nabih Youssef Associates |
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| Other information | |
| Seating capacity | 1,600 (The Theatre at Ace Hotel) |
| Number of rooms | 182 |
| Number of restaurants | 1 |
| Number of bars | 3 |
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| Architectural style(s) | Spanish Gothic Revival |
| Governing body | Private |
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument | |
| Official name | United Artists Theater Building |
| Designated | March 20, 1991 |
| Reference no. | 523 |
| References | |
The building contains the historic United Artists Theatre, the flagship theater built for the United Artists motion picture studio. The theater was later used as a church by pastors Gene Scott and his widow Melissa Scott under the name "University Cathedral". In October 2011, Scott's Wescott Christian Center Inc. sold the building to Greenfield Partners, a real estate investment company located in Westport, Connecticut, for $11 million. It was converted to a hotel, part of the Ace Hotels chain, the Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles, which opened in 2014 and closed in 2024.