The streets of the Historic Core are the birthplace of modern Los Angeles and are on the National Register of Historic Places. Walking these streets, we experience our City's living history. On the west end, there is the awe-inspiring Broadway Historic Theater District, the largest in the country. These large movie palaces catered to the live stage productions and Hollywood's movie industry. Walking one street to the east, we encounter the Historic Spring Street Financial District, one of the nation's west coast banking portal often called "the Wall Street of the West." These streets were the catalysts to the development of the nation's second largest metropolitan downtown.
The Historic Spring Street Financial District includes 23 financial structures that in the first half of the 20th century were referred to as "Palaces of Finance." At least ten of the buildings in the district were designed in whole or in part by John Parkinson. Spring Arts Tower is one of them.
