Below is a map of the Plaza area with streets and monuments marked as they appeared in the 1880s.
Abbreviations and notes edit
- Italics indicate buildings that are still standing.
- Buildings not in italics were demolished.
- A dagger (†) indicates a street that no longer exists, or the pedestrianized areas, formerly considered streets on the perimeter of and now considered part of the Los Angeles Plaza.
- "Female boarding" was a euphemism for small rooms, "cribs", used by prostitutes.[1]
*now Cesar Chavez Ave. **later Sunset Bl., Now Paseo Luis Olivares
| SHORT/BELLEVUE/SUNSET* | Sentous Block (1886–1950s) | M A I N S T R E E T |
MACY | L O S A N G E L E S S T R E E T |
MACY | A L A M E D A S T. |
MACY | ||||
| Upper Main St. (San Fern- ando St., North Spring St.) |
Pelanconi House (1850s) La Golondrina restaurant (1924– ) Sepulveda House (1887) |
O L V E R A S T. |
—Avila Adobe (1818) —Plaza Substation (1905) —Olvera House (19th c.)/ —Methodist Church and Eugene Biscailuz Bldg. (1926) |
"Female Boarding" | Orphan Asylum APABLAZA ST. Old Chinatown Now Union Station (1939) | ||||||
| MARCHESSAULT ST.†** | MARCHESSAULT ST.† | MARCHESSAULT† | MARCHESSAULT† | ||||||||
| —Our Lady Queen of the Angels Church (1814/1861) Plaza House (1883) —Vickrey-Brunswig Bldg (1888) |
LOS ANGELES PLAZA | —Lugo Adobe (1840s-1951) | Chinese theater |
Old Chinatown Now Union Station | |||||||
| Del Valle adobe (?-1880s) | "Female boarding" | ||||||||||
| SONORA/REPUBLIC† | PLAZA STREET† | FERGUSON† | SHAFER† | ||||||||
| Hoffman House (hotel) | Carrillo House (1821-1869)/ Pico House (1875) Merced Theater (1870) |
S A N C H E Z |
—Chinese American Museum in the Phillipe Garnier Bldg.(1890) At corner: —Coronel Adobe (1840-1888)/ —Hotel Lion D'Or in Jeanette Block |
Calle de los Negros —"Female Boarding" —"Chinese Quarters" Wilcox Bldg./ —Hotel Grenoble/ —Hotel De Gap Now parking lot and freeway onramp. |
—"Female Boarding" —Hotel de France Now Union Station complex. | ||||||
| Now US 101 | ARCADIA now Arcadia St. & US-101 | ALISO now Arcadia/US-101 | |||||||||
for the area to the south, see Victorian Downtown Los Angeles