English: Exterior view of Trinity Auditorium Building, 9th Street and Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1914-1920 Photograph of the front exterior view of Trinity Auditorium Building (later the Embassy Hotel and Auditorium), 9th Street and Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1914-1920. The building is about 10-stories tall. The first floor consists of large arched opening allowing access to the main entrance and several other entrances. Four column buttresses under a wide pediment provide for a Greek look. A dome tower stands above the rooftop. There are two streetlamps on to of the roof (one on each end of the building). Below the lamps are fire-escape ladder wells, which run from the rooftop to the second floor. Early-model cars are parked along the street. An advertisement on the sidewalk showing a picture of a man reads: "Evan Williams, Trinity [...] 28". Other legible signs include: "[Th]anksgiving Market, [ho]me baked pies and cakes, real southern beat[...] biscuits, here November 25th".; "Built in 1914, this fine old building has served as a hotel, a church, and a university residence. When it was the Trinity Auditorium building, three stories were used for church purposes and 325 rooms above as a hotel for men. It had a roof garden, social halls, ladies parlor, and a library. The 2300 seat auditorium was used by Trinity for church functions on Sundays and was available for rent at other times for "high grade concerts, lectures, conventions, etc." In the 1980s, the University of Southern California purchased the building, using it for several years as a residential college." -- unknown author. Call number: CHS-5622 Legacy record ID: chs-m912; USC-1-1-1-916 Photographer: C.C. Pierce & Co. Filename: CHS-5622 Coverage date: circa 1914/1920 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 Type: images Geographic subject (city or populated place): Downtown Los Angeles; Los Angeles Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections Format: glass plate negatives Microfiche number: 1-13-20 Archival file: chs_Volume67/CHS-5622.tiff Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Geographic subject (country): USA Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): buildings Project: USC Repository email: specol@usc.edu Identifying number: isla id: S-4542 Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: circa 1914/1920 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Geographic subject (manmade feature): Trinity Auditorium; Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church South Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs Geographic subject (state): California Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal; Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal Geographic coordinates: -118.24845,34.05034; -118.24754,34.04939; -118.24848,34.04862; -118.2493,34.04943; -118.24845,34.05034 Accession number: 5622 Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles Geographic subject (roadway): Grand Avenue; 9th Street; Broadway & 4th Street Subject (lcsh): Churches Subject: Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church; Trinity Methodist Southern Church; Los Angeles (Los Angeles) Architecture -- Commercial -- Theatres