 Front entrance of Bradbury The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. The building was built in 1893 and is located at 304 South Broadway. Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 201 KB) This work is copyrighted. ...
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History
The building was commissioned by Louis Bradbury (after whom it is named), a mining millionaire who had become a real estate developer in the later part of his life. His plan (in 1892) was to have a five story building constructed at Third Street and Broadway in Los Angeles, close to the Bunker Hill neighborhood. Download high resolution version (1920x2560, 405 KB) This work is copyrighted. ...
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A local architect, Sumner Hunt, was first hired to complete a design for the building but Bradbury ruled against constructing his plans which he did not view as adequately matching the grandeur of his vision. Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...
Bradbury then hired George Wyman, one of Hunt's draftsmen, to design the building. George Herbert Wyman (1860 – ca. ...
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Wyman at first refused the offer to design the building. However Wyman supposedly had a ghostly talk with his dead brother Mark Wyman (who had been dead for six years) while using a planchette board with his wife. The ghostly message that came through supposedly said "Mark Wyman / take the / Bradbury building / and you will be / successful" with the word "successful" written upside down. After the episode, Wyman took the job and is now regarded as the architect of the Bradbury Building. Wyman's grandson, the science fiction publisher Forrest J. Ackerman, owns the original of this document. Coincidentally, Ackerman is a close friend of science fiction author Ray Bradbury. A planchette is a triangular or heart-shaped board supported by castors which, when lightly touched and moved by the fingers, is claimed to spell out supernatural or spiritual messages. ...
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Wyman was especially influenced in the construction of the building by Edward Bellamy's book Looking Backward (published in 1887) which described a utopian society in the year 2000. In the book, the average commercial building was described as a "vast hall full of light, received not alone from the windows on all sides, but from the dome, the point of which was a hundred feet above ... The walls and ceiling were frescoed in mellow tints, calculated to soften without absorbing the light which flooded the interior." This description greatly influenced the Bradbury Building. Edward Bellamy, circa 1889. ...
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A restoration and seismic retrofitting by developer Ira Yellin and project architect Brenda Levin Associates was undertaken in 1991. As part of the restoration, a storage area at the south end of the building was converted to a new rear entrance portico, connecting the building more directly to Biddy Mason Park and the adjacent Broadway Spring Center parking garage. The building's lighting system was also redesigned, bringing in alabaster wall sconces from Spain. Alabaster (sometimes called satin spar) is a name applied to varieties of two distinct minerals: gypsum (a hydrous sulfate of calcium) and the calcite (a carbonate of calcium). ...
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Architecture
 Elevator ironwork and skylight The building itself features an Italian Renaissance-style exterior facade of brown brick, sandstone and panels of terra cotta details, in the "commercial Romanesque" that was the current idiom in East Coast American cities. The center court of the interior is the part of the building that is known for its remarkable beauty. Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 549 KB) This work is copyrighted. ...
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The five-story central court features glazed brick, ornamental cast iron, tiling, rich marble, and polished wood, capped by a skylight that allows the court to be flooded with natural rather than artificial light. The elevators in the building are also famous for their being cage elevators surrounded by wrought-iron grillwork rather than masonry. They go up to the fifth floor. The word skylight, when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language. ...
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The entire main building features geometric patterned staircases at all ends. The building is known for its large use of ornately designed wrought-iron railings which are supposed to give the illusion of hanging vegetation and are found throughout the building. This wrought-iron was executed in France and displayed at the Chicago World's Fair before being installed in the building. Freestanding mail-chutes are also made out of ironwork. World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 The World Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago Worlds Fair), a Worlds fair, was held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbuss discovery of the New World. ...
The walls are made of pale glazed brick, the marble used in the staircase was imported from Belgium, and the floors are composed of Mexican tile.
Construction
 Skylight, stairs and elevators During construction, an active spring was found beneath the work-site, which threatened to shut down work on the building by weakening the foundation. However, Mr. Bradbury who was very committed to the project, believing it to be the greatest monument possible to his memory, spared no expense and imported massive steel rails from Europe in order to bolster the building and allow its construction. Download high resolution version (960x1280, 308 KB) This work is copyrighted. ...
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The initial estimate for building the building was $175,000. When it was completed it had cost over $500,000, a ridiculously large amount for those times.
In a sad twist of fate, Lewis Bradbury died months before the building opened in 1893 although it stands as a testament to his and George Wyman's vision and with all its international fame most surely lives up to his dream. Wyman never designed any other building of considerable acclaim. 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
The building today Although the building has operated as an office building for most of its history. The Bradbury has recently come under government protection and historical preservation as it has been designated a National Historic Landmark. Today, the building serves as headquarters for the Los Angeles Police Department's Internal Affairs division and other government agencies. Several of the offices are rented out to private concerns including Red Line Tours. The retail spaces on the first floor currently house Ross Cutlery, a Subway sandwich restaurant, a Sprint cell phone store, and a real estate sales office for loft conversions in other nearby historic buildings. This article is about traditional meanings of the word office. ...
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The building was prominently used in the film Blade Runner (where it served as an inside joke, as the building shares its name with science fiction virtuoso Ray Bradbury), the 1950 film noir classic D.O.A., the film Wolf starring Jack Nicholson, the "Demon with a Glass Hand" episode of the TV series The Outer Limits, the Charles Bronson movie Murphy's Law, music videos from the 1980's by Heart and Genesis, and a Pontiac Pursuit commercial. The building is also seen with the name Gotham Towers in the tv series Quantum Leap in the episode "Play it again, Seymour", the last of the first season. Image File history File links Screenshot from the film Blade Runner. ...
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Ray Bradbury in 1945. ...
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Visitors Visitors are welcomed on a daily basis and greeted by a government worker to aid them with historical facts and information about the building. Visitors are allowed up to the first landing but not past it. Brochures and tours are also available and the building is a popular tourist attraction. It is also close to three other Los Angeles Landmarks: the Grand Central Market and the Million Dollar Theater (across the street) and Angels Flight (two blocks away). The building is accessible from the Los Angeles MTA Red Line via the Civic Center exit which is three blocks away. Download high resolution version (1500x1448, 201 KB) This work is copyrighted. ...
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