Sterling Plaza

Sterling Plaza.

The Sterling Plaza (a.k.a. California Bank Building) is a historic building in Beverly Hills, California.

Location

The building is located at 9429-9441 on Wilshire Boulevard, in the City of Beverly Hills, California.[1][2][3]

History

Construction was completed in 1929.[1] It was designed by the architectural team John and Donald Parkinson in the Art Deco style.[1] With seven stories, it is 32 metre high.[2]

It was built for the California National Bank of Beverly Hills.[3] As a result, it was first known as the California Bank Building.[1] The building was completed just before the Wall Street crash.[3] It was later acquired by Louis B. Mayer, the head of MGM.[4]

In the 1990s, the building was acquired by Donald Sterling.[4][5] As a result, it was renamed the Sterling Plaza.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Los Angeles Conservancy: Sterling Plaza
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Emporis: California Bank Building
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Suzanne Tarbell Cooper, Amy Ronnebeck Hall, Frank E. Cooper, Jr., Los Angeles Art Deco, Arcadia Publishing, 2005,
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Marc Wanamaker, Beverly Hills: 1930-2005, Arcadia Publishing, 2006
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Is Donald Sterling guilty of tax evasion? New report shows his long-dead grandmother and mother are the CURRENT owners of two properties in his childhood neighborhood, The Daily Mail, May 19, 2014