The Downtown Standard Hotel

This innovative project, winner of awards from both the California Preservation Foundation and the Los Angeles Conservancy, involved the rehabilitation of a major modernist office building in downtown Los Angeles for use as a hotel. It is the work of Claud Beelman, who designed several major high rise buildings in downtown Los Angeles and the Wilshire Corridor between 1929 and 1955 and is an excellent example of local corporate architecture in the 1950s. The building has been designated a City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The property represents the finest in downtown Postwar modern architecture, a period in the history of Los Angeles which is gaining increased recognition and significance. HRG prepared and guided a certified rehabilitation in conformance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and facilitated entitlements, tax abatement and other incentives.