Hotel Rosslyn Annex

The Hotel Rosslyn Annex is a historic building in Los Angeles, California built in 1923 at the corner of 5th and Main streets. The structure was designed by the firm Parkinson & Parkinson in the Beaux Arts style and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.[2]

Hotel Rosslyn Annex
Southeast side of the Hotel Rosslyn Annex
Location112 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, California
Coordinates 34.0468°N 118.2489°W / 34.0468; -118.2489
Built1923
ArchitectParkinson & Parkinson, George Edwin Bergstrom[1]
Architectural styleBeaux Arts
NRHP reference No.13000589
Added to NRHPAugust 13, 2013

The building is across the street from the original 800-room Rosslyn Hotel built in 1914. Designed as a twin, both were topped by mammoth glowing signs featuring the names surrounded by a heart, the shape acknowledging the Hart brothers who owned the hotels.[3]

The 264-unit Hotel Rosslyn Annex was renovated in 2015 to house a mix of homeless veteran, low-income and market-rate tenants.[4][1]

The hotel can be seen in National Security (2003 film), where Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn characters doing a stakeout on top of another building across from hotel. Irish pop vocal group Westlife used Hotel Rosslyn as a background location on parts of the official music video of their eleventh UK number-one hit "Unbreakable" in 2002. The building and the others in the area, were used in the Amazing Spider-Man. [5] The movie Burlesque featuring Cher and Christina Aguilera also shows Hotel Rosslyn as the place where Aguilera's character Ali first lives when she gets to LA. Latin urban artists Becky G and Bad Bunny filmed the music video of their smash hit Mayores on the rooftop of the hotel.
In 2008 the Italian singer Vasco Rossi filmed on the rooftop of the hotel the video for the song Il Mondo Che Vorrei.

On the show Lucifer, season 1 episode 13. Amenadiel brings Lucifer to the rooftop after taking him from LUX and you can see they're behind the sign.

The building can be seen in the background of the rooftop scene in the 1978 film The Driver, starring Ryan O’Neal. The scene is approximately halfway through the movie, where The Detective (Bruce Dern) is talking to Glasses (Joseph Walsh) about recruiting The Driver (Ryan O’Neal).

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See also

References
  1. https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/rosslyn-hotel-annex-apartments
  2. Dory, Elysha (2011). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Hotel Rosslyn Annex" (PDF). National Park Service.
  3. Pool, Bob (October 31, 2014) "DOWNTOWN L.A. SPEAKEASY RESTS EASY — FOR NOW" Los Angeles Times
  4. Holland, Gale (September 9, 2014) "Restored Rosslyn Hotel annex will house 75 homeless veterans" Los Angeles Times
  5. https://www.imdb.com/search/title?locations=Rosslyn%20Lofts%20-%20101%20W%205th%20St,%20Los%20Angeles,%20California,%20USA&ref_=tt_dt_dt

Further reading
  • "Builders Set Record for Skill and Speed". Los Angeles Times. December 29, 1923. p. I8.
  • "New Unit of Great Hostelry". Los Angeles Times. December 29, 1923. p. I7.
  • "Rosslyn Among Leading Hotels". Los Angeles Times. December 6, 1932. p. A12.
  • "Thousands Seeks New Hostelry". Los Angeles Times. September 30, 1923. p. I4.
  • Field, William Scott (1994). Parkinson Centennial: 100 Years of the Parkinson Architecture Firm in Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Parkinson Field Associates. OCLC 30798667.
  • Gleye, Paul (1981). The Architecture of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Rosebud Books. ISBN 9780865580046.
  • Roseman, Curtis C.; Wallach, Ruth; Taube, Dace; McCann, Linda; DeVerteuil, Geoffrey (2004). The Historic Core of Los Angeles. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738529240.
  • "Rosslyn Hotel". Los Angeles Conservancy. Retrieved July 16, 2014.


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