Subway Terminal Building
California, United States
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Opened in 1925 at 417 South Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles, the Subway Terminal served as the Pacific Electric Railway's second and principal station, designed by Schultze and Weaver in Italian Renaissance Revival style. The building functioned as a gateway to Southern California's west and north via the mile-long "Hollywood Subway"—officially the Belmont Tunnel—which burrowed beneath Bunker Hill. The underground station sat beneath office floors that have since been converted into Metro 417 luxury apartments. At its zenith, the Terminal handled upwards of twenty million passengers annually. Today, the modern Red Line's Pershing Square station runs parallel to the historic structure, separated by only a retaining wall, making the Subway Terminal a palimpsest of Los Angeles's transit evolution. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, it remains a testament to the city's early rail infrastructure.
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- building
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
- Place
- California, United States
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