Taft Building (Los Angeles)

The Taft Building is a historic twelve-story building at 6280 W. Hollywood Blvd. and 1680 North Vine Street, Hollywood and Vine, in Hollywood, California.

History
The Taft Building was built for A.Z. Taft, Jr. (1889–1941), who purchased the Hollywood Memorial Church for US$125,000, tore it down, and commissioned the Taft Building on the property. The architecture firm Walker and Eisen, known for the Fine Arts Building, James Oviatt Building, Hotel Normandie, Beverly Wilshire Hotel, and Commercial Exchange Building, amongst others, designed the building, which features Classical Revival architecture. Construction was completed in 1923, at which point the building became the first high-rise office building in Los Angeles.

Shortly after this building was completed, every Hollywood movie studio had an office in it, as did Charlie Chaplin, Will Rogers, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and numerous agents, casting companies, publicists, and entertainment lawyers.

In 1984, the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with the Taft Building listed as a contributing property in the district. In 1999, the building was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

In 2011, Langer Meringoff Properties sold the building for $28.5 million to DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners, who then spent an additional $15 million in renovations. The building was later purchased by Ocean West Capital Partners for $70 million, and in March 2023, Elat Properties purchased it for $28 million.