page_title: 7th Street (Los Angeles)
section_title: Grand to Olive
hierarchical_section_title: 7th Street (Los Angeles) / Landmarks / Grand to Olive
caption_attribution_description: English: The historic Brockman Building located at 520 W. 7th St. in downtown Los Angeles, California. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
context_page_description: 7th Street is a street in Los Angeles, California running from S. Norton Ave in Mid-Wilshire through Downtown Los Angeles. It goes all the way to the eastern city limits at Indiana Ave., and the border between Boyle Heights, Los Angeles and East Los Angeles.
  Originally agricultural land, 7th Street between Broadway and Figueroa Street, became downtown's upscale shopping district. This began with J. W. Robinson's deciding to build their flagship store in 1915 on Seventh far to the west of the existing Broadway shopping district, between Hope and Grand streets. The Ville de Paris and Coulter's as well as numerous specialty shops came and rounded out the district.
  The area lost its exclusivity when the upscale downtown stores opened branches in Hollywood, Mid-Wilshire, Westwood and Pasadena in the late 1920s through the 1940s, notably the establishment of Bullock's upscale landmark branch Bullocks Wilshire in Mid-Wilshire in 1929.
  Thirteen large office buildings opened between 1920 and 1928. By 1929, every plot on 7th between Figueroa and Los Angeles Streets had been developed.
context_section_description: Brockman Building, 530 W. Seventh Street, Barnett, Haynes and Barnett (1912), National Register of Historic Places
  Quinby Building, 529 W. Seventh Street, Meyer and Holler (1926)
  Bronson Building (The Collection), 527 W. Seventh Street, Austin and Pennell (1913). Originally the Brack Shops, independent shops grouped together as a sort of department store.
  Brock and Company Building (Mas Malo/ Seven Grand), 515 W. Seventh Street, Dodd and Richards (1922), Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #358
  Bank of Italy (Giannini Place), 505 W. Seventh Street, Morgan, Walls and Morgan (1922), Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #354
  Coulter Dry Goods Company (later Myer Siegel, Dohrmann's, now The Mandel), 500 W. Seventh Street, Dodd and Richards (1917)
caption: Brockman Building
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